Story Elements
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
Directions for cooking spaghetti is an example of this text structure.
What is sequence or chronological?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
This type of literature includes lines and stanzas and sometimes rhymes.
What is poetry?
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast?
The point of view told by someone who is in the fictional story.
What is first person narration?
Mrs. Clark's class was saddened to see garbage on the track, field and playground. Therefore, they decided to take gloves and bags outside during recess time so they could clean up the mess.
This text has a certain text structure.
What is problem / solution text structure?
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?
This type of literature includes a cast of characters, stage directions and dialogue.
What is drama?
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis).
What are stage directions?
This is the point of view of a fictional story told by a narrator who is not in the story.
What is third person narration?
This type of text structure may include words like different, unlike, alike, similar, both and however.
What is compare / contrast text structure?
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
This is an example of what?
What is alliteration?
This type of literature includes sentences and paragraphs. Number the Stars is an example.
What is prose?
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 or moral?
I wrote a paper about my favorite animal, the raccoon. I included specific information about the habitat, diet, and physical appearance of raccoons.
This text had a certain text structure.
What is description text structure?
True or False? Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
This type of literature is also called a play.
What is drama?
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
The point of view when the pronouns he, she, it, or they is primarily used?
What is third person?
This type of text structure includes words like as a result, therefore, because of, and due to.
What is cause / effect text structure?
Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb
Little lamb...
This is an example of what?
What is repetition?
This type of literature does not always include punctuation.
What is poetry?
The person who tells the story.
Who is the narrator?