Character sketch example11/30/2023 ![]() Listen to Jonathan reading his poem here. Gratitude to Waco Cultural Arts Festival’s 2022 Anthology where this poem was first published and to Editor, Sandi Horton for choosing the poem. ![]() Listen to me reading this poem on Soundcloud below: titmouse sings in the shower when she flies in her beak is wide open she sits in the drip sips a bit from the lip of the leaf she has joined the wren and the chickadee the cardinal and his young i put the sprinkler out Porcelain Mother by Johnathan Fletcher ![]() All rights reserved however, educators may copy and distribute this material with this attribution, Young Writer’s Idea Box, (c) d. ellis phelps is the author of Making Room for George, (Moon Shadow Sanctuary Press, 2016) and of this blog. image “homeless man on broad street” used with permission of the artist, Rhys, A., via Creative Commons. You can use this list of questions to describe your character, or think of your own ways to let us see him or her. If the character you have just described was a real person, now try creating a fictional character. You can also use poetic license to add events or details that did not actually happen to create interest or drama. Hint: You can add other details to create your poem or story. Arrange and rearrange the words and phrases until you like the way they sound when you read them aloud to yourself or someone else. What kind of things do you imagine this person thinks about, needs, or wishes?Ĭhallenge: Create a poem or story using the character you have described.Did he remind you of an animal, a machine, something in nature, or an object? Ex: He looked like an old, rubber boot, hunched over and worn.How did he walk or move? Did he saunter, slide, limp, ramble, hobble, or stroll?.In what kind of place do you imagine he/she lives? Do you think he/she might live in an a mansion, a shack, a boat, in the country, or in the suburbs?.How do you imagine this person behaves? Ex: He looked like a person who would take his grandmother out to dinner every Sunday.Was he/she tall, short, lean, fat, muscular, or flabby? Was it hateful, comical, stupid, curious, blank, round, wrinkled, smooth, flat or pinched? Think of a word to describe the person’s expression or characteristics of his/her face.What kind of hands does this person have? Are they expressive or do they hang limply at his/her sides? Are his/her fingers long and thin, crooked or like fat stubs?.What color was her hair? How long was it? How was it styled?.What was he/she doing? Trying to fix his car yelling out the window….Where did you see this person? Walking down my street in the airport sitting on a park bench on the news….Try It! Use detail to describe someone you know, someone you have seen, or imagine. Try to decide between generic or name brand soda The reader should get a general idea about the nature of this person, and know something about how they look and how they live in the world.Įxtends perpendicular to the cheese-on-club-cracker It is like drawing a quick pencil sketch rather than doing a full portrait. Definition: In a character sketch, you are letting the reader know many things about the character in a few lines of poetry or, as in a story, in a paragraph or two.
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