Characterization

_{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"Turning her head slowly, like a patient becoming paralyzed, neck stiffening forever, she forced her eyes to search among the photographs."
_{-The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

_{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"My heart, which has been pounding like a conga drum, is about to burst through my chest and run itself home."
_{-Countdown by Deborah Wiles}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

^{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"I regretted it the instant the words passed my lips."
_{-Ungifted by Gordon Korman}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

_{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"A man in a tattered army jacket and battered pants lay along the curb, propped up on an elbow, his eyes closed."
_{-Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

_{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"I tried to walk with a swagger like Darrell did, but my legs felt more like a couple of loose pistons slapping."
_{-Seeing Red by Kathryn Erskine}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

_{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"I was relieved, but I also felt like a weenie."
_{-Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

_{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"I would stay in my seat for the rest of the time.  I feel like there is a bubble in my chest that expands more by the second."
_{-Divergent by Veronica Roth}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

^{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"I'm feeling apprehensive,' he confessed, glad that the appropriate descriptive word had finally come to him."
_{-The Giver by Lois Lowry}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

^{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"Chase couldn't tell what it was, but it frightened him so badly that he nearly sucked in a lungful of water."
_{-Storm Runners by Roland Smith}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

^{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"I couldn't take my eyes off the wooden bat, which she was slapping from one palm to the other."
_{-Flush by Carl Hiaasen}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization