Rather than explicitly describe a characters qualities, an author shows the character as he or she moves through the world, allowing the reader to infer the character qualities from his or her behavior!
Depending on a situation, for example if the plot is in Paris and the main character is in disparity. Their actions or their speech would tell us what’s happening
Implicit characterization is when you need to infer what a character is like. This occurs when an author gives you a characters thoughts, actions, interactions, speech, and context
Nikki Giovanni is the author of the poem “My First Memory (of Librarians).”
Nikki Giovanni was born in 1943, Nikki Giovanni is the author of numerous collections of poetry and was the first poet awarded with the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award.
in the following excerpt from the poem:
"In the foyer up four steps a semicircular desk presided To the left side a card catalogue On the right newspapers draped over what looked like a quilt rack Magazines face out from the wall"
The reader is provided with:
A. implicit details about how the speaker feels about books.
This is better understood by reading the next lines of the poem, for example:
"The <u>welcoming smile of my librarian</u>
<u>The anticipation in my heart</u>
All those books—another world—just waiting
At my fingertips."
so the final answer to this question is :
A. implicit details about how the speaker feels about books.
Lessing's childhood involved going out into nature and enjoying it as best as she could until her mother would tell her to stop and be a proper woman. Lessing lived after World War I from which his father suffered injuries that prevented him from walking again.
