Character & Conflict Runway
This happens when the author explicitly steps right up and tells the reader exactly what a character's personality traits are
What is direct characterization?
This dynamic occurs when one person or group holds a major advantage over another and decides to use it in an unfair way.
What is an unfair power dynamic?
This is the overall emotional feeling or atmosphere that a reader gets while moving through a story.
What is mood?
A word, phrase, physical object, or situation that repeatedly shows up across a literary text
What is a motif?
Components like bold print, captions, headers, and glossaries that give information without being part of the main text body
What are text features?
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?
A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
What is a map?
This type of character undergoes a major internal transformation, learning a lesson or changing in complex ways by the end of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
This is the tendency for a whole group of people to start thinking, feeling, or behaving in the exact same way, like a wave of peer pressure.
What is group mentality?
An author's craft move where a word sounds exactly like its literal meaning, such as "CRACK!" or "POP!"
What is onomatopoeia?
A deep, universal lesson or message about life that the author is trying to teach the reader through the story
What is a theme?
Visual aids found within a text—such as charts, diagrams, maps, or timelines—used to support the author's message
What are graphic features?
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?
Organizes and helps compare information in a visual way
What is a chart/graph?
This is how we can infer internal character traits of characters from a story.
What are words, thoughts, and actions?
This happens when a person in a high position of authority behaves unfairly, typically driven by greed and selfishness
What is corruption?
A literary device where an author drops subtle hints or clues to prepare the reader for future developments in the plot
What is foreshadowing?
A metaphor for a book that allows readers to see their own lives, identities, and experiences reflected in the pages
What is a mirror?
A first-hand account of a historical event created by a person who was actually there to live through it
What is a primary source?
These are specific examples from the text you must provide to support your claim
What is text evidence?
Gives users an overview of the document's contents and organization. It allows readers to go directly to a specific section of a document
What is a table of contents?
This type of character remains the same throughout the text.
What are static characters?
Forming an alliance, appealing to a higher authority, or building up inner strength are all ways a character can __________ an unfair power dynamic.
What is overcome?
A style of writing or speaking that is totally neutral, unbiased, and states plain facts without including personal feelings
What is an objective tone?
This occurs when an author uses a concrete physical object to represent a much bigger, abstract concept or idea
What is symbolism?
In historical fiction this is typically true.
What are the major historical events, setting, and culture of the people?
DAILY DOUBLE: This is the correct order in which you write a short response.
What are a thesis statement, context of text evidence, quote, explanation, and concluding sentence?
This text structure describes a problem and how it can be, or how it was solved, and/or fixed
What is a problem-solution structure?
This is the skill readers use to figure out a character's personality traits by analyzing their inner thoughts, actions, and spoken dialogue.
What is indirect characterization?
To do this across a text, a reader identifies moments where control changes hands and maps them
What is tracking power shifts?
The use of humor, irony, and extreme exaggeration to expose and criticize problems or foolishness in society
What is satire?
A metaphor for a book that offers the reader a clear look into a completely fresh situation or culture they have never personally faced
What is a window?
The specific nonfiction text structure that organizes information or historical events in the exact order that they happened over time
What is sequence / chronological order?
This is the order of a concluding paragraph in a thematic essay.
What is thesis, text, world?
This short title or explanation can be found beneath a picture in an article.
What is a caption?
Opposing forces cause an obstacle for a character to overcome, and creates this for the main characters.
What is character motivation?
This is a major theme from our novel The Pushcart War
What is people can use skill to overcome a higher power?
When a word reflects its dictionary defintion.
What is denotation?
These are the 3 main purposes that we learned behind why an author writes a text.
What is to persuade, to inform, and to entertain?
These are the reasons that Park writes from a child's perspective.
What is to make it relatable to the reader and empathize with the character?
This is the amount of paragraphs we use in a thematic essay
What is 5?
This text feature tells the reader the topic of the section or paragraphs that come next. Underneath the heading.
What is a subheading?