Dialogue Detectives
This is what dialogue reveals about a character
The people (or animals) in a story and their traits, motivations, and actions.
What are characters?
These are the people or animals in a story.
What are the characters?
To analyze means to do this to a text.
What is to break it down?
This line is dialogue:
A. The room is silent
B. "I didn't touch your notebook!"
The plot is the sequence of these.
What are events?
This sense is used when the author describes sounds?
What is hearing?
When you analyze, you must support your ideas with this.
What is evidence?
Dialogue can move the plot forward by creating this.
What is conflict
The moment when the story's reaches its high point.
What is the climax?
A detail like 'her hands trembled" reveals this about a character.
What is emotion (fear, anxiety)?
Analyzing helps readers understand this deeper message.
What is theme?
When a character's dialogue becomes shorter or sharper, it often shows this emotional shift.
What is anger or frustration?
This part of the plot introduces the main conflict
What is the rising action?
When analyzing, readers must explain not just what happens but this.
What is why does it matter?
The words characters speak to each other.
What is dialogue?
This is the term for the event that resolves the conflict
What is the resolution?