Create your own character sketch of about one page in length. you are building a character, perhaps inspired by a real person, who could fit into the iliad. you may create a god, goddess, ruler, or whoever you can imagine who would fit seamlessly into the epic poem. include at least two epithets to describe your character. key point! the text does not have to be in a rhyme scheme, unless you want another challenge. describe the following: your character’s appearance your character’s actions says does interacts with others your character’s feelings reveal these details through: reflection, as if you personally know the character using the first person “i” reveal information through conversation reveal character through observation (voice of observer) after your sketch is complete, read it to someone else. then, have your listener describe the qualities of this character. if all went well, you will hear the key characteristics you had in mind. if not, you may need to make some revisions.

In this excerpt from "quality" by john galsworthy, which two parts clearly indicate the literary point of view of the essay? that tenement had a certain quiet distinction; there was no sign upon its face that he made for any of the royal family—merely his own german name of gessler brothers; and in the window a few pairs of boots. i remember that it always troubled me to account for those unvarying boots in the window, for he made only what was ordered, reaching nothing down, and it seemed so inconceivable that what he made could ever have failed to fit. had he bought them to put there? that, too, seemed inconceivable. he would never have tolerated in his house leather on which he had not worked himself. besides, they were too beautiful—the pair of pumps, so inexpressibly slim, the patent leathers with cloth tops, making water come into one's mouth, the tall brown riding boots with marvellous sooty glow, as if, though new, they had been worn a hundred years. those pairs could only have been made by one who saw before him the soul of boot—so truly were they prototypes incarnating the very spirit of all foot-gear. these thoughts, of course, came to me later, though even when i was promoted to him, at the age of perhaps fourteen, some inkling haunted me of the dignity of himself and brother. for to make boots—such boots as he made—seemed to me then, and still seems to me, mysterious and wonderful.