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

Two synonyms of inform are –

What is to describe or explain?

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?

200
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
200

The author's purpose when they want you to have fun while you are reading –

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

Authors use this to let the reader know what the next paragraph or section is going to be about –

What is heading?

200

These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis) and italics.

What is stage directions (acotaciones)?

300

The point of view where someone OUTSIDE the story is telling the story –

What is third-person?

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

Text below a photograph that gives a description –

What is a caption?

300

This gives details about the time and place where 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 a commercial –

What is to persuade?

400
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
400

Text structure where an author describes how one event leads to another –

What is cause and effect structure?

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

The point of view where the narrator uses terms such as "you" and "your"

What is second person?

500

This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article talking about an event happening next week –

What is to inform?

500

Type of poem that tells a story (has a beginning, middle, end, characters, problem, and a solution) –

What is a narrative poem?

500

Text structure where an author tells how two or more things are similar and different –

What is compare and contrast text structure?

500

The person who tells what is happening in the play that carries the story along.

What is the narrator?

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