Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Text Features
Drama or Play
100
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
100
The author's pupose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, descibe, _________, or ________.
What is to pursuade or inform?
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 are BOLDED words?

100
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast?
200
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
200

What is the author's purpose for using repetition, or the mention of an idea/object multiple times in a text?

To bring the reader's attention to an important detail

200

A group of words, 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 the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is topic sentece?
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

The 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?

300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
What are guide words?
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
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is to entertain?
400
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
400
Sometimes authors use graphs, charts, webs, or diagraphs to give the reader additional information or to help them undstand something better. What are these called?
What are graphic organizers?
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
This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is to inform?
500

When the line of a poem stops in the middle and continues on to the next line; often does not have punctuation. 

What is a line break?

500

List 3 of the ways an author might STRUCTURE the text. 

Cause/Effect; Problem/Solution; Description, Chronological; Compare/Contrast

500

The person who tells the story.

What is the narrator?

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