Character Clues
These are the special descriptive words used to define a character's unique personality and behavior, rather than what they simply see or eat
What are character traits?
When Duprau writes, "Darkness slammed into her like a wall," she uses this form of figurative language.
What is a simile?
These external forces can determine a character's decisions and help readers understand their motivations
What are pressures?
This literary genre blends completely fictional characters with major historical events, accurate settings, and real past cultures.
What is Historical Fiction?
This is the very first stage of a thematic essay introduction, where you talk about a big "World" idea before mentioning the book
What is the thematic statement?
In order to identify inner qualities like being "compassionate" or "clever," you must look at these things.
What are words, thoughts, and actions?
When someone is feeling unwell and we say they are "under the weather," we are using this form of figurative language.
What is an idiom?
This is when a chapter ends right in the middle of the action, leaving us wanting to know what happens next
Even though they initially started out as protective strangers under a bridge, the relationship between Tree-ear and Crane-man mirrors this family bond.
What is a father and son relationship?
This is the single most important sentence located at the end of your introduction paragraph that clearly states your main claim about the book's lesson
What is the Thesis Statement?
This term describes the underlying reason why a character behaves a certain way or the inner drive that causes their behavior
What is character motivation?
This basic literacy term describes the written lines where people are actively speaking out loud to one another in a story.
What is dialogue?
When the author gives access to the character’s thoughts and feelings, they are trying to build this in the reader.
What is sympathy?
In historical fiction, to teach readers about a past period in an engaging and entertaining way is known as this.
What is the author's goal?
You must bring these specific situational examples from the text to support your claim.
What is text evidence?
To prove a character trait is completely accurate, we look for this in the character throughout the text
What is a pattern of behavior?
This master term is defined as the specific collection of intentional skills, tools, and stylistic techniques an author uses to build a story.
What is author's craft?
We look at these to determine character relationships.
What are interactions?
When a physical object represents a greater idea or concept, like the clay monkey representing the strong bond between Tree-ear and Crane-man, it is called this.
What is symbolism?
This is the part of your body paragraph where you act like a detective and explain the "Why"—connecting your book examples directly back to the big life lesson.
This gives us a deeper understanding of our characters, and helps us adjust our theories on them.
What is backstory?
This is when we give human feelings or actions to non-human things like, "The wind whispered."
What is personification?
When authority abuse their power and give into selfishness and greed
What is corruption?
Tree-ear proves he possesses this character trait by walking all the way to Songdo with only a single pottery shard left to show the Emissary.
What is persistence?
DAILY DOUBLE: This is the correct order in which you write a body paragraph in a thematic essay
What are a topic sentence, context of text evidence, quote, explanation, and concluding sentence?