Story Elements
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
The author's pupose for writing informational could be to explain, descibe, _________, or ________.
What is to persuade or inform?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
The point of view told by someone in the story, using words like "I," "me," "my," etc.
What is first person?
The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can never be to_____________.
What is entertain?
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?
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is topic sentece?
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What are character traits?
The author's purpose of a text about the best features of a certain topic that includes words like "you should" and "best."
What is to persuade?
These are words that are slanted from the rest of the words and made to stand out.
What are italics?
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme?
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is to entertain?
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
Sometimes authors use graphs, charts, webs, or diagrams to give the reader additional information or to help them undstand something better. What are these called?
What are graphic features?
This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is to inform?
When a line of a poem ends without punctuation and another starts on the next line.
What is a line break?
Writers organize information 4 different ways including cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, and chronological.
What is text structure?
The person who carries the story along (tells the story).
What is the narrator?