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    Characterization refers to how writers describe characters. Writers can use direct methods like physical descriptions or indirect methods that reveal characters through their actions, speech, thoughts, and how others see them. In Roald Dahl's short story "The Landlady," he uses indirect characterization to initially portray the landlady, giving the reader an unsettling impression of her through details about her home and interactions with the main character, before directly revealing her disturbing true nature later in the story.

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    Characterization refers to how writers describe characters. Writers can use direct methods like physical descriptions or indirect methods that reveal characters through their actions, speech, thoughts, and how others see them. In Roald Dahl's short story "The Landlady," he uses indirect characterization to initially portray the landlady, giving the reader an unsettling impression of her through details about her home and interactions with the main character, before directly revealing her disturbing true nature later in the story.

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    Characterization in The Story The Landlady

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    Characterization refers to how writers describe characters. Writers can use direct methods like physical descriptions or indirect methods that reveal characters through their actions, speech, thoughts, and how others see them. In Roald Dahl's short story "The Landlady," he uses indirect characterization to initially portray the landlady, giving the reader an unsettling impression of her through details about her home and interactions with the main character, before directly revealing her disturbing true nature later in the story.

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    Characterization in The Landlady.

    Watch the short video about characterizations and do the activities that follow.

    1. What does characterization mean?


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    2. What different types of characterization do writers use?


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    3. There is an acronym that can help you better understand indirect characterization:
    Write the letters in the first column, and what they stand for, in the chart below:

    4. Focus on the character of The Landlady, does Roald Dahl use direct or indirect
    characterization to describe and let us know what she is like?
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    5. How does our impression of her change as the story unfolds? When would you say that
    happens?
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    The Landlady

    Complete the chart with examples from the text

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