character voice
Fictional person's tone
Character voice is the distinctive way a fictional character speaks and thinks—their vocabulary, rhythm, tone, and verbal habits that distinguish them from other characters and from the narrator.
A writer works to find a character's voice, then maintains it for authenticity: She finally nailed the character voice for her protagonist.
In voice acting, character voice refers to the specific vocal performance an actor creates for a role: He's famous for his cartoon character voices.
- slangInformal in-group vocabulary
- whisperSpeech without full voice
- pitchFrequency of sound
- vocal fryCreaky lowest voice register
- accentRegional speech pattern
worldview · point of view · unique perspective · dialect · register · temperament · vulnerability · insecurity · vernacular · cadence · characterization · voiceover · motivation · idiom · persona · subtext · verbal tic · growl
- actingacting, act, performing, playacting, actor
- literary devicesmetaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, alliteration
- acting termsmethod acting, overacting, dialogue, body language, scene stealing
- monologuessoliloquy, dramatic monologue, interior monologue, spoken word, recitation
- reader's theaterscript reading, dramatic reading, staged reading, read aloud
- ventriloquismdummy, puppet, wooden dummy, dummies, lip sync
character voicenarrator voice
Speaker delivering the tale
third-person narration · voiceover narration · omniscient narrator · author's voice · direct address