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Characterization
Plot
100
To do this, a reader makes a judgment or arrives at a belief based on evidence, experience, or reasoning
What is draw conclusions?
100
This is an event or action that directly results in another event or action.
What is cause?
100
These are words such as before, then, after, and meanwhile that indicate when an event occurred.
What is time signal words?
100
This is the way a writer creates and develops a character's personality.
What is characterization?
100
This part of the plot reveals how the story ends.
What is resolution?
200
When a reader does this, they briefly retell the main ideas of a piece of writing in their own words.
What is summarize?
200
This is the direct or logical outcome of an event or action.
What is effect?
200
This is the reason behind a character's behavior.
What is motivation?
200
One method of characterization is for the reader to look at the character's ______________ appearance.
What is physical?
200
This is the high point of interest or suspense in a literary work?
What is the climax?
300
This type of literature has setting and details of the plot that include real places and real events of historical importance.
What is historical fiction or historical narrative?
300
This is the excitement or tension that readers feel as they wait to find how a story ends or a conflict is resolved.
What is suspense?
300
This is the central focus of a literary work or piece of writing.
What is main idea?
300
In this method of characterization, readers must evaluate a character's own thoughts, speech, and ____________.
What is actions?
300
This part of the plot details the setting, main characters, and the basic situation on the work.
What is the exposition?
400
This is the particular arrangement of ideas and information in a literary work.
What is pattern of organization (or pattern of organization)?
400
This is the arrangement of event in the order of occurrence.
What is chronological order?
400
To do this, a reader makes a logical assumption that is based on observed facts and one's own knowledge and experience.
What is infer?
400
In this method of characterization, readers must look at the narrators _____________ ________________ about the character's nature.
What are direct comments?
400
In this part of the plot, the conflict is revealed and complicated
What is the rising action?
500
This is any material that serves to prove a claim.
What is support or supporting details?
500
This is the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for a reader.
What is mood?
500
This is the struggle between opposing forces, or the problem, in a literary work.
What is conflict?
500
For this method of characterization, the reader must look at the pertinent thoughts, speech, and actions of ___________ _____________ about the character.
What are other characters?
500
This part of the plot details the effects of the climax.
What is the falling action?
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