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 is BOLDED words?
100

The name for the group of people in a play.

What is the cast/characters?

200
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
200
The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can never be to_____________.
What is entertain?
200
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?
200

Author's use this to connect all ideas of their writing together, sharing similarities or differences to a specific topic. 

What is a main idea?

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

Describing words used to talk about the characters, could be physical characteristics or actions the character takes often. 

What are character traits?

300
Tha author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad that includes words like you should and best.
What is to pursuade?
300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300

These pages are used to locate chapters of the book, they are in the front of a book.

What is the Table of Contents?

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 understand something better. What are these called?

(Hint: Ms. P uses this term for the sheets we use to organize our RACE writing or notes sheets.)

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 there is a space between stanzas, or groups of lines.

What is a stanza or line break?

500

Writers organize information different ways, list 3 different text structures.

What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence/chronological, problem and solution, description?

500

The person who is telling the story and describing the characters.

What is the narrator?

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