Story Elements
Hodge Podge
Poetry
Text Features
Drama or Play
100
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
100

Compare/Contrast, Cause/Effect, and Sequence are examples of _____

text structures

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, italicized, or underlined 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

Examples of figurative language, words or phrases that don't have literal meaning, are _____

similes, metaphors, or idioms

200

A group of words that 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 these to let the reader know what the main idea of the text or a section will be about.

What are headings and subheadings?

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

Reading skills I learn in fourth grade will benefit me all my _____,

life

300

True or False? All poetry must rhyme.

What is false?

300

This is written information next to a picture in a text.

What is a caption?

300
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is the setting?
400

Authors sometimes include this hidden message or lesson in their stories.

What is a theme?

400

True or False? Author's purpose is the reason why an author likes a text.

What is false?

400

True or False? Poetry can tell a story.

What is true?

400

Sometimes authors give the reader additional information or help them understand something better with text features such as...

maps, diagrams, timelines, tables, or pictures

400
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
500

These three things are part of the PLOT of a fictional story.

What are characters, problem, and resolution?

500

To summarize any text I must first understand the _____ and _____.

central idea and details

500

True or False? Poetry creates images and appeals to the emotions.

What true?

500

True or False? The topic sentence is the main idea sentence of a paragraph.

What is true?

500

The person who is not part of the story but carries the story along.

Who is the narrator?

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