Internal and External Character Traits

What are character traits?

• Character traits describe where the story takes place.

• Character traits describe how a character solves a problem.

• Character traits are adjectives that describe a person's personality.

• Character traits are the pieces or parts that make up a fiction story.

What type of motivation comes from character’s own thoughts and feelings?

• Internal

• External

a quality that a character shows through their actions, what they say and what they do for example

• mood

• conflict

• trait

True or False: We can tell what a character is like by what they say, what they do, how they interact with others for example.

• True

• False

There are two types of character traits. What are they?

• Internal

• Feelings

• External

What do you use to infer internal character traits?

• A character's clothes.

• A character's words.

• A character's actions.

• A character's thoughts.

When inferring character traits I need to use ________ to support my answer.

• a. happy
• b. busy
• c. nervous

• a. clumsy
• b. embarrassed
• c. funny

• a. cruel
• b. bossy
• c. impolite