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 inform or express feelings/emotions?
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. You see this with vocabulary words.
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 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 let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is topic sentence?
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
Tha author's purpose of an advertisement about what the features of an Ipad that includes words, "It will take pictures. You can send an e-mail, etc."
What is to inform?
300
Two or more words which match in the same last sound (bat, cat, sat).
What is rhyme?
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? We have used them when we talked about fact and opinion, drawing conclusions, etc.
What are graphic organizers?
400
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters. This is also when two people are talking to each other.
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
This is the focus of the poem. It is the main idea of the piece and everything in the poem relates to that idea and reinforces it.
What is a Central Idea (Theme)?
500
If my story has different sections titled, Food, Family, Friends, and Clothing- which one would I read to find information about the different outfits someone might wear? What are these four different sections called?
What is clothing and subtitles?
500
The person who tells the story.
What is the narrator?
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