Elements of Fiction
A literary work based on imagination and not necessarily on fact.
What is fiction?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
This genre has stanzas and lines.
What is poetry?
What the text, or a specific section of the text, is mostly about.
What is the main/central idea?
How information is organized and presented to readers overall, or specific paragraphs, in nonfictional texts.
What is organizational patterns/text structures?
The events that make up a story.
What is plot?
The central idea or message of a story; the insight it offers into life.
What is theme?
This genre has characters, dialogue, lines, and scenes.
What is drama?
The parts of an informational text that stand out. These elements create different sections of a text, help readers better understand and visualize information presented in a text, as well as guide readers as they navigate texts.
What is text features?
A sentence or words that explain a picture.
What is a caption?
The main reason an author has for writing a piece of fiction.
What is to entertain?
The feeling created in a reader by a fictional text or passage.
What is mood?
Words or instructions written in brackets that help readers visualize characters' actions and emotions, as well as the scene's setting.
What are stage directions?
The reason an author includes a specific piece of information or element in a text.
What is author's purpose?
A drawing or illustration, usually accompanied by labels or captions, that explains information presented in the text.
What is a diagram?
The turning point in the action of a story.
What is climax?
The use of clues by an author that suggest future events in the story will occur.
What is foreshadowing?
Language that means more than what it says on the surface; not actual or literal meaning.
What is figurative language?
The attitude or general feeling an author takes towards the subject of a nonfiction text.
What is tone?
a thing that is know or proved to be true; information used as evidence or supporting details in a nonfiction text.
What is a fact?
How an author portrays the characters, bringing them to life for readers, in a fictional story.
What is characterization/character traits?
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The use of a word or phrase more than one time in order to emphasize something.
What is repetition?
What the author wants readers to learn from reading the passage.
What is author's message?
Authors include pictures, diagrams, graphs, as well as other text features such a subtitles or captions, to help readers:
What is understand the information presented in the text more?