What is the definition of details?

Answer 1

The definition of supporting details is to give more information about the topic and or details or information that backs up an sentence. For example, you might make a 'conclusion' or determination that a book character "was depressed". The supporting details might be that this character:

• held a picture of the deceased spouse
• cried all the time
• withdrew and refused visitors
• moped around
• stayed in their room
• refused to eat.

We often make assumptions or determinations when we read, but we must be able to state why we made these conclusions about a character. An author shows rather than tells a conclusion--we must also show how we make our determinations based on what the author showed--or did not show.