ACT Preparation / Unit 16 ACT 1527 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Characters and Their Interactions
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The idea
In a literary passage, a character is revealed through what they do, say and think, and through how they treat others.
In practice
A grandfather who corrects everyone's grammar but saves every letter his granddaughter writes is stern and devoted at once.
Where people slip
A character can hold both halves of a contradiction; the passage's evidence decides, not a single line.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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