Drag the tiles to the correct boxes. Each tile can be used more than once.
Match each excerpt to the type of characterization it contains.
direct characterization
indirect characterization
excerpt 1
They were indeed an odd-looking party that assembled on the bank-
the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging
close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.
(Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
excerpt 2
Seven long years he had worked hard for his master. At last he said,
"Master, my time is up; I must go home and see my poor mother once
more: so pray pay me my wages and let me go." And the master said,
"You have been a faithful and good servant, Hans, so you pay shall be
handsome." Then he gave him a lump of silver as big as his head.
(The Grimm Brothers, The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales)
excerpt 3
During this dialogue the child had remained silent, her eyes roving
from one to the other, all the animation fading out of her face.
Suddenly she seemed to grasp the full meaning of what had been said.
Dropping her precious carpet-bag she sprang forward a step and
clasped her hands.
(Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables)

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant