Story Elements
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
Setting
The author's pupose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, descibe, _________, or ________.
To pursuade or inform?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
This is called a stanza.
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
BOLDED words?
The name for the group of people in a play.
The cast?
The point of view told by someone in the story.
First person
The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can never be to_____________.
entertain?
A group of words that goes from the left to the right and may or may not have punctuation at the end.
A line
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
A topic sentece.
This gives details about the time and place where the story took place.
Setting
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
Character traits
The author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an iPad includes words like you should and best.
to pursuade?
Poetry that does not rhyme.
free verse?
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
Guided words?
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis).
Stage Directions
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
Theme
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
to entertain?
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
True
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?
graphic organizers?
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
Dialogue?
The point of view when he, she, it, or they is primarily used?
Third person
This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
to inform?
When a line of a poem ends without punctuation, and another starts on the next line.
Line Break
Writers organize information in 3 different ways.
cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence?
The person who carries the story along.
Narrator.