Notes

Making inferences/ Inferring = Drawing Conclusions = Using past knowledge with clues from the text to understand what is really going on in a story. 

Just like drawing conclusions when you make inferences you read between the lines.

To begin to infer ask yourself who? what? when? where? & WHY?

Characterization

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1. Characters are the most important part of any story.

2. An author develops characters and gives them personality traits.

3. A character might be sad, angry, happy, ambitious, quiet, passive-aggressive, immature, a bully, a daughter, a boxer, a spoiled rich girl, a young athlete, etc.........

4. The way that an author develops realistic characters is by using the techniques of characterization.

Techniques of Characterization

1.  Direct description by narrator

(Bill was a mean cowboy.)

2. Character's speech  and/or actions. 

(Bill cussed, then shot his six shooter in the air.)

3.Speech and/or actions of other characters.

( Men looked away, women hid their children when Bill went out nights in Tombstone.)