Story Elements
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
The author's purpose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, describe, _________, or ________.
What is to persuade or inform?
A group of lines in poetry following a rhyme scheme most of the times
What is a stanza?
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is BOLDED words?
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast of the characters?
The point of view told by someone in the story.
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 introduce the main idea of a section
What is heading?
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?
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What are character traits?
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 persuade?
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
What are guide words?
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is the setting?
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?
Information explaining a picture
What are captions?
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
The point of view when he, she, it, or they is primarily used?
What is third person?
This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is to inform?
Poem in which the speaker expresses his/her own feelings
What is a lyrical?
Writers organize information 4 different ways.
What is cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and sequence?
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?