A) The correct answer for direct characterization is: statements about a character in a narrator’s words.
A) The correct answer for how characters relate to plot is: Characters help drive plot through their words and actions.
A) Which of the following is an example of direct characterization? (1 point)
a description of a character’s clothing
the description of a character’s actions
a reaction to a character by another character
statements about a character in a narrator’s words
A) What is one way that characters relate to plot? (1 point)
Characters help draw the reader’s attention away from the plot.
Characters help drive plot through their words and actions.
Characters move a plot forward through the way they are characterized.
Characters explain the plot to readers.
7 answers
A Cup of Tea
by Katherine Mansfield
Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful. No, you
couldn’t have called her beautiful. Pretty? Well, if
you took her to pieces. . . . But why be so cruel as
to take anyone to pieces? She was young, brilliant,
extremely modern, exquisitely well dressed,
amazingly well read in the newest of the new
books, and her parties were the most delicious
mixture of the really important people and . . .
artists—quaint creatures, discoveries of hers, some
of them too terrifying for words, but others quite
presentable and amusing.
Rosemary had been married two years. She had a
duck of a boy. No, not Peter—Michael. And her
husband absolutely adored her. They were
rich, really rich, not just comfortably well off, which
is odious and stuffy and sounds like one’s
grandparents. But if Rosemary wanted to shop
she would go to Paris as you and I would go to
Bond Street. If she wanted to buy flowers, the car
pulled up at that perfect shop in Regent Street, and
Rosemary inside the shop just gazed in her
dazzled, rather exotic way, and said: “I want those
and those and those. Give me four bunches of
those. And that jar of roses. Yes, I’ll have all the
roses in the jar. No, no lilac. I hate lilac. It’s got no
shape.” The attendant bowed and put the lilac out
of sight, as though this was only too true; lilac was
dreadfully shapeless. “Give me those stumpy little
tulips. Those red and white ones.” And she was
followed to the car by a thin shop girl staggering
under an immense white paper armful that looked
like a baby in long clothes. . . .
One winter afternoon she had been buying
something in a little antique shop in Curzon Street.
It was a shop she liked. For one thing, one usually
had it to oneself. And then the man who kept it was
ridiculously fond of serving her. He beamed
whenever she came in. He clasped his hands; he
was so gratified he could scarcely speak. Flattery,
of course. All the same, there was something. . . .
“You see, madam,” he would explain in his low
respectful tones, “I love my things. I would rather
not part with them than sell them to someone who
does not appreciate them, who has not that fine
A)
Use the excerpt from the beginning of “A Cup
of Tea” by Katherine Mansfield to answer the
question.
Why would Rosemary be considered a
complex character?
(1 point)
The story has two main characters but
is mainly about Rosemary, who is
present throughout the story.
Rosemary observes her surroundings in
a way that makes the cultural and
historical context clear.
The story is told from Rosemary’s point
of view to allow her thoughts and
feelings to be the main perspective.
Rosemary has complicated thoughts
and motivations about the choices
she makes.
by Katherine Mansfield
Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful. No, you
couldn’t have called her beautiful. Pretty? Well, if
you took her to pieces. . . . But why be so cruel as
to take anyone to pieces? She was young, brilliant,
extremely modern, exquisitely well dressed,
amazingly well read in the newest of the new
books, and her parties were the most delicious
mixture of the really important people and . . .
artists—quaint creatures, discoveries of hers, some
of them too terrifying for words, but others quite
presentable and amusing.
Rosemary had been married two years. She had a
duck of a boy. No, not Peter—Michael. And her
husband absolutely adored her. They were
rich, really rich, not just comfortably well off, which
is odious and stuffy and sounds like one’s
grandparents. But if Rosemary wanted to shop
she would go to Paris as you and I would go to
Bond Street. If she wanted to buy flowers, the car
pulled up at that perfect shop in Regent Street, and
Rosemary inside the shop just gazed in her
dazzled, rather exotic way, and said: “I want those
and those and those. Give me four bunches of
those. And that jar of roses. Yes, I’ll have all the
roses in the jar. No, no lilac. I hate lilac. It’s got no
shape.” The attendant bowed and put the lilac out
of sight, as though this was only too true; lilac was
dreadfully shapeless. “Give me those stumpy little
tulips. Those red and white ones.” And she was
followed to the car by a thin shop girl staggering
under an immense white paper armful that looked
like a baby in long clothes. . . .
One winter afternoon she had been buying
something in a little antique shop in Curzon Street.
It was a shop she liked. For one thing, one usually
had it to oneself. And then the man who kept it was
ridiculously fond of serving her. He beamed
whenever she came in. He clasped his hands; he
was so gratified he could scarcely speak. Flattery,
of course. All the same, there was something. . . .
“You see, madam,” he would explain in his low
respectful tones, “I love my things. I would rather
not part with them than sell them to someone who
does not appreciate them, who has not that fine
A)
Use the excerpt from the beginning of “A Cup
of Tea” by Katherine Mansfield to answer the
question.
Why would Rosemary be considered a
complex character?
(1 point)
The story has two main characters but
is mainly about Rosemary, who is
present throughout the story.
Rosemary observes her surroundings in
a way that makes the cultural and
historical context clear.
The story is told from Rosemary’s point
of view to allow her thoughts and
feelings to be the main perspective.
Rosemary has complicated thoughts
and motivations about the choices
she makes.
The correct answer for why Rosemary would be considered a complex character is: Rosemary has complicated thoughts and motivations about the choices she makes.
A) How does a complex character drive a story’s plot? (1 point)
Their motivations can create conflicts that relate to a story’s themes
They bring another character’s qualities into sharp focus.
Their personalities are interesting and intriguing for the reader.
They usually cause conflict and give the story depth.
Their motivations can create conflicts that relate to a story’s themes
They bring another character’s qualities into sharp focus.
Their personalities are interesting and intriguing for the reader.
They usually cause conflict and give the story depth.
The correct answer for how a complex character drives a story’s plot is: Their motivations can create conflicts that relate to a story’s themes.
The Open Window
by H. H. Munro (Saki)
“You may wonder why we keep that window wide
open on an October afternoon,” said the niece,
indicating a large French window that opened on to
a lawn.
“It is quite warm for the time of the year,” said
Framton; “but has that window got anything to do
with the tragedy?”
“Out through that window, three years ago to a day,
her husband and her two young brothers went off
for their day’s shooting. They never came back. In
crossing the moor to their favourite snipe-shooting
ground they were all three engulfed in a
treacherous piece of bog. It had been that dreadful
wet summer, you know, and places that were safe
in other years gave way suddenly without warning.
Their bodies were never recovered. That was the
dreadful part of it.” Here the child’s voice lost its
self-possessed note and became falteringly human.
“Poor aunt always thinks that they will come back
some day, they and the little brown spaniel that was
lost with them, and walk in at that window just as
they used to do. That is why the window is kept
open every evening till it is quite dusk. Poor dear
aunt, she has often told me how they went out, her
husband with his white waterproof coat over his
arm, and Ronnie, her youngest brother, singing
‘Bertie, why do you bound?’ as he always did to
tease her, because she said it got on her nerves.
Do you know, sometimes on still, quiet evenings
like this, I almost get a creepy feeling that they will
all walk in through that window—”
"The Open Window" by H.H. Munro ("Saki")
A)
Use the excerpt below from H.H. Munro’s
“The Open Window” to answer the question.
Which of the following is a character trait of
the niece, as she appears in this excerpt?
(1 point)
mysterious
imaginative
bored
disrespectful
by H. H. Munro (Saki)
“You may wonder why we keep that window wide
open on an October afternoon,” said the niece,
indicating a large French window that opened on to
a lawn.
“It is quite warm for the time of the year,” said
Framton; “but has that window got anything to do
with the tragedy?”
“Out through that window, three years ago to a day,
her husband and her two young brothers went off
for their day’s shooting. They never came back. In
crossing the moor to their favourite snipe-shooting
ground they were all three engulfed in a
treacherous piece of bog. It had been that dreadful
wet summer, you know, and places that were safe
in other years gave way suddenly without warning.
Their bodies were never recovered. That was the
dreadful part of it.” Here the child’s voice lost its
self-possessed note and became falteringly human.
“Poor aunt always thinks that they will come back
some day, they and the little brown spaniel that was
lost with them, and walk in at that window just as
they used to do. That is why the window is kept
open every evening till it is quite dusk. Poor dear
aunt, she has often told me how they went out, her
husband with his white waterproof coat over his
arm, and Ronnie, her youngest brother, singing
‘Bertie, why do you bound?’ as he always did to
tease her, because she said it got on her nerves.
Do you know, sometimes on still, quiet evenings
like this, I almost get a creepy feeling that they will
all walk in through that window—”
"The Open Window" by H.H. Munro ("Saki")
A)
Use the excerpt below from H.H. Munro’s
“The Open Window” to answer the question.
Which of the following is a character trait of
the niece, as she appears in this excerpt?
(1 point)
mysterious
imaginative
bored
disrespectful
The character trait of the niece, as she appears in this excerpt, is: imaginative.