Characters come alive.

Meaning: This means that when you read a story, the characters can feel like they are real people or beings that you can relate to.

Choice of Words: Characters are people, animals, or other beings in a story. Come is a verb that means to move toward or arrive at a place. Alive is an adjective that describes something that is living. When you put them together, "Characters come alive" emphasizes the idea that characters in a story can seem like real people or beings.

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• Characters come alive, lessons learned.
• Characters come alive in reader's mind.
• Characters come alive in her mind.
• Characters came alive on page.
• The characters leaped off the page, alive.
• The characters came alive in her imagination.
• Characters came alive in my thoughts.
• The characters came alive on the page.
• Characters came alive, emotions stirred.
• Characters came alive at night.