Notice and Note Signposts Quiz

Definition: When a character says or does something opposite of what you would expect.

• Words of the Wiser

• Contrasts and Contradictions

• Memory Moment

• Aha Moment

"Wait… if she was at the library at 5, then she couldn't have been at the café at the same time!"

• Aha Moment

• Again and Again

• Tough Questions

• Memory Moment

Definition: When a character realizes something that suddenly changes his or her understanding.

• Contrasts and Contradictions

• Again and Again

• Aha Moment

• Words of the Wiser

"Why do I always end up hurting the people I care about most?"

• Again and Again

• Tough Questions

• Memory Moment

• Aha Moment

Definition: When an older or wiser character gives life advice to the main character.

• Words of the Wiser

• Contrasts and Contradictions

• Aha Moment

• Again and Again

"Every morning, he tied the same red string around his wrist, just as he had since the war began."

• Contrasts and Contradictions

• Memory Moment

• Again and Again

• Tough Questions

Definition: When a word, phrase, object, or situation is repeated over and over.

• Memory Moment

• Contrasts and Contradictions

• Again and Again

• Aha Moment

"I still remember the day Dad first taught me how to ride a bike-it was the moment I stopped being afraid of falling."

• Memory Moment

• Words of the Wiser

• Aha Moment

• Tough Questions

Definition: When the author interrupts the story to show you a memory or flashback.

• Contrasts and Contradictions

• Again and Again

• Memory Moment

• Tough Questions

"She hated cats her whole life, yet now she was cradling a stray kitten like a newborn."

• Contrasts and Contradictions

• Words of the Wiser

• Memory Moment

• Again and Again