Which sentence from "In with the New" includes a stated character trait? "To brighten the mood, Samantha folded her napkin and crammed it on her head so she looked a bit like Curious George wearing a pirate hat." "Samantha made a lot of jokes. Some of them were bad, but she made them from kindness. She made them to make people feel better." "When Samantha saw the girl's visible distress, she flashed back to her own first day at school a year ago." "Samantha had arrived at school in black and blended in pretty well in the dreary hallways, holding her head down, hoping no one would notice her."

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Kailyn Haney

15 March, 21:06

Which sentence from "In with the New" includes a stated character trait? "To brighten the mood, Samantha folded her napkin and crammed it on her head so she looked a bit like Curious George wearing a pirate hat." "Samantha made a lot of jokes. Some of them were bad, but she made them from kindness. She made them to make people feel better." "When Samantha saw the girl's visible distress, she flashed back to her own first day at school a year ago." "Samantha had arrived at school in black and blended in pretty well in the dreary hallways, holding her head down, hoping no one would notice her."

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Jazlene Blankenship · Answer 1

The group of sentences which contain a stated character trait is: "Samantha made a lot of jokes. Some of them were bad, but she made them from kindness. She made them to make people feel better."

All the other sentences contain implied character traits, meaning clues about a character's personality which rely on textual hints that the reader has to interpret. In opposition, stated character traits are personality features which are explicitly expressed in the text.

Here, we are told that Samatha is kind ("out of kindness").