Story Elements
What is setting?
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is to persuade or inform?
The author's purpose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, describe, _________, or ________.
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What are BOLDED words?
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is the cast?
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is first person?
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is entertain?
The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can never be to_____________.
What is a line?
A group of words, they go from the left to the right and may or may not have punctuation at the end.
What is topic sentence?
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is stage directions?
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis).
What are character traits?
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What is to persuade?
The author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad that includes words like you should and best.
What is free verse?
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What are guide words?
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
What is a setting?
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is a theme?
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is to entertain?
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is true?
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What are graphic organizers?
Sometimes authors use graphs, charts, webs, or diagraphs to give the reader additional information or to help them understand something better. What are these called?
What is dialogue?
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is third person?
The point of view when he, she, it, or they is primarily used
What is to inform?
This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is a line break?
When a line of a poem ends without punctuation and another starts on the next line.
Why do writers use cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence?
Writers organize information 3 different ways.
What is the narrator?
The person who carries the story along.