Reading & WritingChapter 2: Inferences
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Camera evidence
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Actions, gestures, dialogue, and physical choices a camera could record.
ExampleApply this idea to the next Inferences passage you read.
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Before-trigger-after
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Track the initial behavior, the event that changes it, and the later response.
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Attitude inference
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A measured conclusion about how a character views a person, object, or situation.
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Motive inference
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A text-supported reason that best explains a character's action.
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Dialogue-action contrast
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What a character does may qualify or contradict what the character says.
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Repeated image clue
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A recurring object or image can track a shift in attention or feeling.
ExampleApply this idea to the next Inferences passage you read.
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Hesitation
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A pause can imply uncertainty, but not necessarily fear or refusal.
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Begins to
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Useful wording when the scene shows an emerging change rather than complete transformation.
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Emotion-intensity trap
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A mild feeling is exaggerated into despair, terror, fury, or certainty.
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Permanent-trait trap
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One situational action becomes an unsupported claim about the character always.
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Stereotype trap
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Outside assumptions about age, role, or identity replace scene evidence.
ExampleApply this idea to the next Inferences passage you read.
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Narrator vs character
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Narration can describe a person without expressing that person's own belief.
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Symbol caution
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Infer from how the character treats an object, not from a memorized symbolic meaning.
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Silence caution
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Silence may signal many things; surrounding actions must narrow the interpretation.
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Irony clue
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A mismatch between words and context may reveal an attitude opposite the literal statement.
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Relational motive
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Ask what changed between the character and another person, not just inside the character.
ExampleApply this idea to the next Inferences passage you read.
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Choice preservation
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A later decision often supplies stronger evidence than an earlier private thought.
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Proportional reading
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Match the answer's emotional strength to the number and clarity of scene clues.
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Alternative motive check
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Prefer the motive explaining all key actions with the fewest additions.
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Final character check
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Which precise action proves the attitude or motive named in this option?
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