Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Text Structures
Drama or Play
100

Fiction always includes this description of time and place.

What is setting?

100
The author's pupose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, descibe, _________, or ________.
What is to pursuade or inform?
100
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
100

Texts that use details to explain or give information about a person, event, idea, etc.

What type of text structure is this?

What is Description?

100
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast?
200

The point of view told by someone in the story.

What is first person?

200
The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can never be to_____________.
What is entertain?
200
A group of words, they go from the left to the right and may or may not have punctuation at the end.
What is a line?
200

Texts that describe a problem and possible solutions.

What type of text structure is this?

What is Problem and Solution?

200
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis).
What is stage directions?
300

These are based on the actions and words of the characters.

What are character traits?

300
Tha author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad that includes words like you should and best.
What is to pursuade?
300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300

These signal words are used in what type of text structure?

As a result, because, reason, therefore, consequently, effect

What is Cause and Effect?

300
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is the setting?
400

Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.

What is a theme?

400

The author's purpose for writing fiction.

What is to entertain?

400
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
400

These signal words are used in what type of text structure?

Same, both, also, compared, alike, etc.

What is Compare and Contrast?

400
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
500

The point of view when he, she, it, or they is primarily used?

What is third person?

500

This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.

What is to inform?

500
When a line of a poem ends without punctuation and another starts on the next line.
What is a line break?
500

What type of text structure is the author using when he/she puts events into chronological order?

What is Sequence?

500
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?
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