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Building Bridges

Building Bridges - Characters How can you tell what story characters are like? Authors introduce their characters by giving clues to help readers figure out what a character is like.

When you meet new people, you use clues such as how they look, what they do;, and what they say to figure out what they are like, When you read a story you can use similar clues to figure out what the characters are like.

Mama Lil and I had been butting heads ever since I could remember. and the older I got, the more at odds we were. A description tells what the characters look like. She thought I **weighed too much** and **dressed badly**. I thought she **smoked too much** and overdid it with her **fake gold chains**. Time after time, she'd asked me, "How you ever gonna land a decent man with them **chunky arms** and those **T-shirts** that you put you **navel on parade**? No self respecting seventeen-year old should be **letting it all hang out** like that."
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 * Types of Clues**

Authors:

•describe what the character looks like

•tell what the character does

•show what the character says and thinks.


 * Dialogue** is what the character says. Dialogue begins and ends with quotation marks.


 * Dialect** includes special expressions used by people in a certain group or from a certain area.

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