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| people or animals who are involved in a story; they have qualities such as courage, laziness, or ambition |
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| qualities that describe a character |
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| Examples of character traits: |
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| shyness, courage, compassion, laziness, intelligence, hardworking, tricky, mean & bravery |
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| Why are character traits important? |
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| They influence the events in story |
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| List 3 ways to bring a character to life: |
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1.Letting the character talk 2. Showing the character in action
3. Telling us what the character thinks |
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| the most exciting part of the story |
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the struggle that the main character has
*gives the story drama, interest,and action |
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| a problem that is within a character's mind or heart |
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| Examples of an internal conflict: |
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| *a character may have to struggle with a decision to lie *A character might struggle with shyness, or fear, or jealousy |
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| an outside force that a character must overcome |
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| Examples of external conflicts: |
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| *Climbing a mountain *fighting a vilian *an earthquake |
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| looking for ways in which things are ALIKE |
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| looking for ways in which things are DIFFERENT |
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| removed from an area (During the war, Japanese Americans were evacuated fromthe west coast) |
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| imprisoned or confined (Ruri's father was interned in a prisoner of war camp) |
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| foreigners (The government treated Japanese Americans as if they were enemy aliens.) |
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| abandoned; deserted (The garden looks as forsaken as Ruri felt when she had to leave home.) |
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| First-person point of view |
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| when the narrator of the story speaks as "I". You will know the qualities, thoughts, & feelings but you won't know of the narrator, but you won't know for sure what other people in the story are thinking & feeling. You'll only know what the narrator tells you. |
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| noblest, highest (Grandfather described endurance as the lofitness virture) |
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| most clever, sharpest (Only the shrewdest could survive T-Na-E-Ka.) |
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| twisted the face to express pain, anger or disgust (Roger grimaced at the thought of eating grasshoppers.) |
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| filling up, stuffed (During his Ta-Na_E-Ka the boy dreamed of gorging himself on hamburgers.) |
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| boldness; daring (mary's parents were shocked at her audacity.) |
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| the series of events in a story. Plot answers the question "What happened?" Knowing "who's who" (the character's traits) can help you predict what will happen |
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| the struggle (can be 2 characters opposing each other or a character struggling with a setting such as an earhtquake, flood, etc. or a conflict could be between the character and a whole group of other people) |
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| problems that come up (these create suspense) |
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| you guess what will happen next based on clues the writer gives you & on what you know from your own experience. |
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| The quote "character is destiny" means... |
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| Your character counts! Your character traits influence the things that happen in your life |
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| An example of "character in destiny: is... |
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