Tells the audience what the personality of the character is.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

• External Conflict

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The author’s underlying message about life or human nature.

• Theme

• Direct Characterization

• Mood

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Reality contradicts reader’s or character’s expectations.

• Verbal Iron

• Theme

• Situational Irony

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The feeling, emotion or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.

• Tone

• Mood

• Setting

• Symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Shows things that reveal the personality of the character.

• Direct Characterization

• Tone

• Dramatic Irony

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The reader or another character knows something a character does not.

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Direct Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A contradiction between what a character says and means.

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Indicates the author’s attitude or feelings toward what he/she has written or the subject/topic of the text.

• Indirect Characterization

• Mood

• Tone

• Direct Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An image with another level of meaning.

• Symbol

• Tone

• Mood

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The time and place of the action in a text.

• Tone

• External Conflict

• Internal Conflict

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3