What a Character!
Which type of character interacts with other characters in the story, but often the reader does not know very much about them?
a. major character
b. minor character
What is MINOR CHARACTER?
This character is one of Auggie’s first friends at Beecher Prep. He and Auggie have six classes together: homeroom, English, history, computer, music, and science.
Who is JACK WILL?
This type of characterization in a novel specifically tells you about the character.
What is DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION?
In the sentence "J. K. Rowling is an excellent author," the word author is known as this part of speech.
What is a PREDICATE NOUN?
Matter can exist any one of these three forms.
What are SOLIDS, LIQUIDS, and GASES?
This is the way an author describes a character so that the audience can picture the character.
What is Direct or indirect CHARACTERIZATION?
After spending the summer with his Grandmere in Paris, this character feels badly for how he treated Auggie during the school year. He apologizes, and decides to enroll in a new school for sixth grade for a fresh start.
Who is JULIAN?
This is the direct object in the following sentence:
"Katie bought her hamster a new cage."
What is a new CAGE?
In the sentence "During the storm, driving became difficult," the word "driving" is known as this.
What is a SIMPLE PREDICATE or What is a VERB?
This is the ability for an object to float.
What is BUOYANCY?
These are the descriptions given by the author about the characters in a story, such as personality, habits, likes and dislikes called
What are CHARACTER TRAITS?
Auggie and this character don’t see each other very much after he moved, but they chat online. He plays the guitar in the after-school rock band and is obsessed with Star Wars. They both dream of going into outer space to visit Pluto one day.
Who is CHRISTOPHER?
To infer a lot about characters from the clothes they wear, their facial features, their body language, and their mannerisms is to characterize indirectly by this.
What is APPEARANCE?
In the sentence "She was sad, alone and miserable" this is the complete predicate.
What is WAS SAD ALONE AND MISERABLE?
This is the measure of the amount of space an object takes up.
What is VOLUME?
This is the phrase used when something happens in a story that results in a chain reaction.
What is CAUSE and EFFECT?
Everyone should get this at least once in their lives, according to Auggie.
What is a STANDING OVATION?
This is what we do when we try to figure out what a character in a book is like by paying attention to the clues the author gives us.
What are MAKING INFERENCES or What is INFERRING?
This type of verb allows predicate nouns and predicate adjectives to exist.
What is a LINKING VERB?
This is matter that can freely change shape and size, while often going unseen.
What is GAS?
This element of reading and literature is the main idea of a story.
What is THEME?
When the author of Wonder, R.J. Polacio was fifteen, she has claimed to be a lot like this character.
Who is VIA?
Name the objects in the following sentence and why type of object they are:
Yesterday, while playing pickleball, Mr. Kaltz served John the wiffle ball.
What are JOHN (indirect object) and WIFFLE BALL (Direct object)?
This word means "to state, affirm, or assert something about the subject of a sentence."
What is PREDICATE?
This is the change in size, shape or color of a substance, all while not changing that substance into a different substance.
What is a PHYSICAL CHANGE?