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a clear and concise statement that offers the main argument of an essay.
Thesis
words we use to describe a character’s personality.
Character Traits
The reasons behind a character’s actions. They answer the question: Why does this character behave the way they do?
Character Motivations
feeling hurt, angry, or upset by something someone did or said
offended
A person who is paid to work for someone else
employee
when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs
Internal Conflict
A writer’s position that the writer wants to prove is true. It is debatable and what the writer believes.
Claim
It is a literary device writers use to develop and reveal a character’s personality, their traits, and what motivates them.
Characterization
A type of confl ict that places characters at odds with forces outside themselves
External Conflict
When you write 1-2 sentences (or more) to explain how the evidence you copied from the text proves your claim makes sense.
Explanation
Prejudice against or in favor of people
Classism
to make a picture of what you’re reading. It requires you to imagine what is happening in the text and create a mental movie in your mind of the text. Good readers use what they know already and their own experiences to help them picture what’s happening in the text.
Visaulize
struggle between two opposing forces
conflict
Quotes that are directly from the text that support the claim. Quotes are words copied from the original text, and they are put in quotation marks to indicate that you copied them.
Evidence
It is when a writer shows readers a character’s personality and their traits through their speech, thoughts, actions, physical appearance, and how other characters react to them.
Indirect Characterization
A belief that all people in a group are the same in some way, even though people are different from one another.
Stereotype
The reason an author creates a text, speech, or video is what they want the audience to think, feel, or learn.
Author’s Purpose
The important idea or lesson an author wants the audience to understand. It is what the author wants the audience to know about the topic
Message
a short personal story used to explain an idea
Anecdote
a group of people within a society who possess the same socioeconomic status.
Social Class
To smile or speak in a disrepsectful manner
sneered
acting as if you are better or more important than others
pompously
very noisy, energetic, and active
boisterous
Who you are, based on what you believe is true, what is important to you, and the people and experiences that help make you who you are.
Identity
The way someone sees and thinks about something based on their beliefs, experiences, and who they are.
Perspective