The process that an author uses to reveal the personality of a
character.
What is characterization?
100
Your argument or opinion.
What is claim?
100
Unknown words that you don't need to understand a sentence, passage, or story.
What is an unnecessary word?
100
...
What are ellipses?
200
" Madame Loisel "
What are quotation marks?
200
When the author tells the reader about a character by stating the character’s traits directly.
What is direct characterization?
200
Information, in quotation marks, from the story that helps you to prove your claim.
What is evidence?
200
Unknown words that you can figure out using the other words in the sentence or paragraph.
What is a word with context clues?
200
[ ]
What are brackets?
300
When you pull the author's words out of a story and put it in your writing.
What is a quote/citation?
300
When the author makes us infer what kind of person the character is based on evidence.
What is indirect characterization?
300
When you summarize your evidence in your own
words, and then explain how your evidence proves your
claim.
What is reasoning?
300
Unknown words that you cannot figure out using the other words in the sentence or paragraph.
What is a need-to-know word?
300
' Madame Loisel '
What is an apostrophe?
400
We put quotes in ... when they are longer than four lines. We indent (press tab) the entire quote and do not
include quotation marks. The page number goes AFTER the period.
What is a block quotation?
400
An adjective that describes a character.
What is a character trait?
400
Claim, evidence, and reasoning
What is C.E.R.?
400
She waited all day long, in the same state of bewilderment at this fearful catastrophe.
What is a word with context clues?
400
(2).
What is a page number?
500
A period always goes after the ... even if the quote ends with a question mark or exclamation point.
What is a page number?
500
One of two or more words that have the same, or almost the same, meaning.
What is a synonym?
500
A statement that is NOT a fact.
What is a claim or argument?
500
Her skirts were awry.
What is a need-to-know word?
500
There shouldn’t be any ... between words and quotation
marks, words and punctuation, or words/numbers and parentheses.