Story Elements
Miscellaneous
Poetry
Non Fiction Text parts
Drama or Poem
100
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
100

What does the prefix non- mean? For example, non-fiction

What is NOT

100
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
100
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is BOLDED words?
100

The name for the group of people in a play.

What is the cast of characters?

200
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
200

This type of text structure explains what happens and why something happens.

What is cause and effect

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

Author's use this to let the reader know what each section is about

What is subheading?

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

One day James went to town to buy new clothes. First, he tried on a pair of trousers. He didn't like them, so he gave them back. Then, he tried on a robe which had the same price as the trousers. He didn't like those either! Finally, he climbed on the donkey and went home.


What is the structure of this paragraph?

What is sequence or chronological?

300

True or false

Poems always have rhyming words. 

What is false?

300

These are located at the bottom of pictures/photographs/images.

What are captions

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
What 4 things should you look for to figure out a character's traits? 

What is Feelings, Actions, Speech (say), Thoughts

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

How do images help the reader?

What is they help you visualize what the text says.

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

What is the difference between a firsthand and a secondhand account?

What 1st hand account -the person actually experienced it, 2nd hand account-someone researches it or reads  about it, interviews someone, they did NOT experience it.

500

How is a poem different than prose (fiction stories)?


Give 2 differences

Stanzas

lines

rhymes


500

Writers organize information 5 different ways. What are those ways?

What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence/chronological, description, and problem/solution?

500

What is the name of the person who tells the story?

What is the narrator?

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