Direct or Indirect Characterization

Danielle was a kindhearted soul.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Corbin laughed without mercy. "What?" he demanded. "You actually expect me to help?"

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

CCSS.W.6.3B

From the driveway, I could already hear him, meowing at me from behind the apartment mirror. He pawed at the glass. As I came up to the porch, he leapt down from the windowsill to meet me at the door.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

CCSS.W.6.3B

She studied the board carefully. She knew that if she made one false move, the game would be over. She would lose. And Yolanda Smithy did NOT like to lose. She had to play this just right. She had to win.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

In the end, there was no helping him. Lenny was a slob. That was all there was to it.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

In all the world of Middle Earth, there was no friend as loyal as Sam Gamgee, and in his heart, Frodo knew it.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

"You two are crazy!" Hermione Granger exclaimed. "That was a live troll, and we're only first year students! You could have gotten us killed--or worse, expelled."

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

The odds were definitely not in her favor. But Katniss Everdeen was brave, and she would rise to the challenge.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

"Come on!" Buddy yelled, laughing, leaping over the empty space to grab the rope swing in mid jump. He hung there, twenty feet over the water, cackling. "What are you afraid of?"

• Direct characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

CCSS.W.6.3B

Catherine studied her paper. At the top she saw the grade B+. She'd missed two questions. She had wanted an A. But she shrugged it off. She'd done her best. That would have to be good enough.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2