"The cyclops Polyphemus traps Odysseus and his men in a cave, behind an enormous rock. Only the cyclops is strong enough to move the rock, so Odysseus can’t escape. Instead, Odysseus hatches a plan. [...] Odysseus’s escape from Polyphemus demonstrates his main character trait: a gift for tactics and trickery. It’s significant that Odysseus’s stratagem requires him to conceal his reputation and identify himself as “Nobody.”"
Reference: SparkNotes LLC (2019). SparkNotes: The Odyssey Key Questions: Five Key Questions. [online] SparkNotes.
The 5th way an author uses to describe a character is through speech.
Explanation:
Author's use speech as another way to describe a character because in a story you need dialogue and dialogue is speech, thus meaning the 5th way to describe a character is speech.
