TEXTUAL EVIDENCE & INFERENCE
This is what you ALWAYS need to support your answer.
What is textual evidence?
This is the definition of theme.
What is the lesson or message?
This is what characterization tells you about a character.
What is personality or traits?
This is a comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
This girl is usually the loudest in class.
Who is Giselle?
This is the difference between explicit information and inference.
What is “explicit is stated, inference is implied”?
You need this to support your theme statement.
What is a quote?
Characters often drive this by causing events.
What is the plot?
Giving human traits to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
In the song “Frosty the Snowman,” this makes Frosty come to life.
What is his magic hat?
This is what your quote MUST do for your answer.
What is support it?
Themes are revealed through this—characters ___ problems.
What is “how characters respond to problems”?
The opposite of a static character.
What is a dynamic character?
This is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
This is the total number of mice that got caught in our classroom.
What is 6?
This is a logical guess based on evidence.
What is an inference?
A theme develops because a character does this.
What is “shows or demonstrates the theme”?
This type of characterization occurs when an author reveals a character through their speech, thoughts, actions, effects on others, or appearance.
What is indirect characterization?
Think STEAL (Speech, Thoughts, Effects on others, Actions, Looks)
This is the struggle between opposing forces, such as character vs. character or character vs. nature.
What is conflict?
This country is credited with starting the tradition of the Christmas tree.
What is Germany?
This is the attitude or feeling the author shows through word choice.
What is tone?
This is what a specific text is about, summarizing its core plot, characters, and events into a single statement, while this is the universal, underlying life lesson or message about humanity that transcends the story and could apply to many different texts.
What is the difference in central idea and theme?
In the sentence “Lena slammed her books down and refused to look anyone in the eye,” what type of characterization is this?
Indirect characterization (Actions)
A reference to a well-known person, story, or event (like “He’s a real Romeo”).
What is an allusion?
This is who Mrs. Drane’s favorite student is.
What is “all of them equally… depending on the day”?