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Characterization   /kˌɛrəktərɪzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Characterization

noun
1.
A graphic or vivid verbal description.  Synonyms: characterisation, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture.  "The author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland" , "The pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"
2.
The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features.  Synonym: characterisation.
3.
Acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture.  Synonyms: enactment, personation, portrayal.






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"Characterization" Quotes from Famous Books



... characterization applies to the Alaskan Eskimo only; so far as is now known the other Eskimo branches ...
— The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo • Ernest William Hawkes

... actor calls The Revenge; or, A Match in Newgate, has sometimes been erroneously ascribed to Mrs. Behn by careless writers. She has also been given The Woman Turn'd Bully, a capital comedy with some clever characterization, which was produced at Dorset Garden in June, 1675, and printed without author's name the same year. Both Prologue and Epilogue, two pretty songs, Oh, the little Delights that a Lover takes; and Ah, how ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn

... This gift of characterization in a few words is lavished also on material objects, as, for instance; what more is needed to describe the forlornness of the home from which Anne was rescued than the statement that even the trees ...
— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... Lounsbury ante.] This is merely a regular part of the form of a grant. Any enrollments of grants—such as those noted on the preceding page—will give examples of the use of this phrase. Further, the form of grant practically always includes a characterization of the grantee as "dilectus vallettus," "dilectus ...
— Chaucer's Official Life • James Root Hulbert

... old girl," (according to Sam's disrespectful characterization of Miss Prue) she had quite given ...
— Sara, a Princess • Fannie E. Newberry


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