Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

6. The use of a foil 
The writer may introduce a foil as a means of characterization. The foil 
accentuates the opposed features of the character he is contrasted with.
7. The naming of characters. 
The naming of characters may also serve as a means of characterization. The 
name may be deliberately chosen to fit a certain character. Take, for example, 
Fielding’s Sir Benjamin Backbite, or Dickens's Mr. and Mrs. Murdstone (murder + 
stone), or O'Henry’s Shark Dodson. Such names are suggestive, as they bring into play 
the associations which the words they are composed of have. For instance, Shark has 
acquired symbolic meaning. 
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 
(1983) 
defines “shark” as follows: “A person clever at getting money from others in dishonest 
or merciless ways, as by lending money at high rates”. The use of a proper name to 
express a general idea is called antonomasia. 
All the means of characterization writers resort to, enable the reader to visualize 
and understand the characters, to think, feel and worry with them as they face their 
problems, to trace the changes and growth in their personalities. 
NARRATIVE METHOD THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES 
The narrative method involves such aspects as (a) who narrates the story and 
(b) the way the narrator stands in relation to the events and to the other characters 
of the story. 

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We are all well aware of the fact that the same people and events may seem 
quite different when seen by various people or from different angles. Like in 
photography, the effect may be absolutely different if a picture is
 
taken from below 
or above the usual eye level. In the same way the author can vary the narrative 
method depending on what he wants his readers to concentrate on. He can tell the 
story from the point of view of a character in the story, or from without — as an 
onlooker.
The author may select either of the following four types of narrators: (1) the