Character's Influence on Plot

Which questions about the story will the setting answer?

• What is the author's attitude about the characters?

• Where and when the story takes place?

• Who are the people the story is about?

• Why and when the author writes the story?

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Setting can give clues about a story’s ________.

• plot

• mood

• conflict

• plot, mood, and conflict

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What are character traits?

• descriptive adjectives that tell what the character is like

• all of the events that happen in a story

• the places where a story happens

• the struggles in the plot of the story

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What can you use to figure out what a character's traits are?

• What the character says

• what the character does

• what the character thinks

• What the character says, does, and thinks

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It was Tanner's first day at his new school. When his teacher introduced him to the class, he tried hard to make eye contact, but he ended up looking down at the floor. A character trait for Tanner is --

• Lazy

• Shy

• Rude

• Stubborn

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Since Brenda was the oldest child in the family, she had to babysit her brothers and sisters while her parents were at work during the summer. She constantly told her brother and sisters what chores they had to do before their parents got home from work. It didn't take long before her siblings had had enough! A character trait for Brenda is --

• Ambitious

• Bossy

• Neat

• Helpful

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Alex shut the lid to his laptop with a loud clap. Some of the people sitting at the tables near him looked up from their books and gave him annoyed looks. Alex realized that he had disturbed them and held up his hand apologetically. The librarian turned toward him and shushed him loudly, perhaps louder than the noise that he had made. Alex put the laptop in his bag and began walking toward the door. He held his head down low. Which of the following choices is evidence that the setting is a library?

• Alex realized that he had disturbed them and held up his hand apologetically.

• The librarian turned toward him and shushed him loudly, perhaps louder than the noise that he had made.

• Alex shut the lid to his laptop with a loud clap

• He held his head down low.

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