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  2. Supporting character - Wikipedia

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    Some examples of well-known supporting characters include Watson in the Sherlock Holmes stories, Donkey in the Shrek films, and Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter series. In some cases, especially in ongoing material such as comic books and television series , supporting characters themselves may become main characters in a spin-off if they gain ...

  3. Character (arts) - Wikipedia

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    Dynamic characters are those that change over the course of the story, while static characters remain the same throughout. An example of a popular dynamic character in literature is Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. At the start of the story, he is a bitter miser, but by the end of the tale, he ...

  4. Psychological fiction - Wikipedia

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    In literature, psychological fiction (also psychological realism) is a narrative genre that emphasizes interior characterization and motivation to explore the spiritual, emotional, and mental lives of its characters. The mode of narration examines the reasons for the behaviours of the character, which propel the plot and explain the story. [1]

  5. What Determines Whether a Role Is Lead or Supporting? Oscar ...

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    Oscar nominations stir up controversy for myriad reasons nearly every year, but there’s one question that pops up again and again: What determines whether a performance is categorized as lead or ...

  6. Characterization - Wikipedia

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    A character's voice is their manner of speech. [10] Different characters use different vocabularies and rhythms of speech. For example, some characters are talkative, others taciturn. The way a character speaks can be a powerful way of revealing the character's personality.

  7. Social facilitation - Wikipedia

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    When given the easy task, they wrote more words in the presence of their favorite character and when given the hard task, the favorite character inhibited their performance. As shown, while the college students were given tasks, their favorite television characters are perceived as "real" in a social facilitation paradigm which gives evidence ...

  8. Outline of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Flash fiction - A work of fewer than 2,000 words. (1,000 by some definitions) (around 5 pages) Short story - A work of at least 2,000 words but under 7,500 words (between about 10 and 40 pages). Novella - A work of at least 17,500 words but under 50,000 words (90-170 pages). [6] The boundary between a long short story and a novella is vague. [7]

  9. Social character - Wikipedia

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    The social character is acquired substantially in the family as an agent of the society but also developed in other institutions of society such as schools and workplaces. The function of the social character is to motivate people to accomplish the expected social tasks concerning work and interaction, education and consuming.