Fiction Signposts

recognizing author’s craft to enhance comprehension and generate inferences.

Aha Moment or Word of the Wiser

Contrasts and Again and again Memory Moment
Tough Questions
Contradictions

A difference between
what the reader
D
expects from the
e repeat
character and how the
f
i character actually acts.
n Also contrasts between
e characters or
situations.
? Why would the
character act or
feel this way?
C character?
l Clues: A character
u behaves or thinks in a
e way that surprises the
s
reader or an element of
setting is unexpected
Events, images, or A recollection by a AM-A character’s The advice or insight
particular words that character that realization that shifts a wiser character
interrupts plot his actions or (usually older) offers
development understanding of about life to the main
himself, others, or the
world
character
Why is the memory
T?s-Questions a
important? character raises that What is the theme
Why does the reveal his inner (message/lesson)
author bring this What background struggles we can apply to
up again and information about real life?
again? the past does this How might this
memory reveal? change the plot or Clues: A wiser
character shares
Clues: A word is Clues: FLASHBACK his/her wisdom in an
Clues: “Suddenly I effort to help the
repeated,
understood…” main character with
sometimes used in “In an instant I knew…”
a problem or
an odd way “What could I do…”
An image reappears Never had I been so decision
several times confused about…”

Recognizing fiction signposts help

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