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  2. Dandadan - Wikipedia

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    After being possessed by the Turbo Granny, Okarun gains the ability to enter a powerful demonic state, granting him immense speed but also a suave yet lethargic alternate personality. Okarun has been bullied frequently by his other classmates for his nerdy demeanor, but grows to take solace in his new friends and eventually becomes somewhat ...

  3. Characterization - Wikipedia

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    Characterization or characterisation is the representation of characters (persons, creatures, or other beings) in narrative and dramatic works.The term character development is sometimes used as a synonym.

  4. Hyperthymic temperament - Wikipedia

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    Hyperthymic temperament, or hyperthymia, from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ("over", meaning here excessive) + θυμός ("spirited"), is a proposed personality type characterized by an exceptionally, or in some cases, abnormally positive or irritated mood and disposition.

  5. Characterology - Wikipedia

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    In German psychology, the term character was often used in place of personality. As such, characterology was the study of personality, its development, and its differences between individuals. The term personality however, which was dominant in English use, came to be preferred after the end of World War II. [1]

  6. Alter ego - Wikipedia

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    A distinct meaning of alter ego is found in the literary analysis used when referring to fictional literature and other narrative forms, describing a key character in a story who is perceived to be intentionally representative of the work's author (or creator), by oblique similarities, in terms of psychology, behavior speech, or thoughts, often ...

  7. Personification - Wikipedia

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    According to Andrew Escobedo, "literary personification marshalls inanimate things, such as passions, abstract ideas, and rivers, and makes them perform actions in the landscape of the narrative." [28] He dates "the rise and fall of its [personification's] literary popularity" to "roughly, between the fifth and seventeenth centuries". [29]

  8. Character (arts) - Wikipedia

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    Four commedia dell'arte characters, whose costumes and demeanor indicate the stock character roles that they portray in this genre. In fiction, a character is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game).

  9. Textuality - Wikipedia

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    Being textual includes innumerable elements and aspects. Each and every form of text and text in that form of literature embraces and consists of its own individual and personal characteristics; these may include its personality, the individuality of that personality, the popularity, and so on. The textualities of the text define its ...