Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Story Structure
Text Elements
Vocabulary
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Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
100
A section in a history book describing the conditions and causes of the Great Depression in the Midwest in the 1930s This text would be written to...?
What is to inform? This text provides information about the Great Depression. Therefore, it was written to inform.
100
When a problem is fixed at the end of the story.
What is resolution (or solution)?
100
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is BOLDED words?
100
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?
200
It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Which part of the setting does this sentence describe?
What is when?
200
The Fox and the Crane At one time the Fox and the Stork were on visiting terms and seemed very good friends. So the Fox invited the Stork to dinner, and for a joke put nothing before her but some soup in a very shallow dish. This the Fox could easily lap up, but the Stork could only wet the end of her long bill in it, and left the meal as hungry as when she began. "I am sorry," said the Fox, "the soup is not to your liking." The Crane, in his turn, asked the Fox to dine at his home the next night. When they were seated at table all that was for their dinner was contained in a very long-necked jar with a narrow mouth, in which the Fox could not insert his snout, so all he could manage to do was to lick the outside of the jar. What is the moral of the story?
What is to treat others as you would like to be treated?
200
Problem between one or more of the characters that must be solved by the end of the story.
What is conflict?
200
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is topic sentece?
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
The Crow and the Pitcher A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to findwater, flew to it with delight. When he reached it, he discovered to his grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get at it. He tried everything he could think of to reach the water, but all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many stones as he could carry and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher, until he brought the water within his reach and thus saved his life. What is the moral of the story?
What is if at first you don't succeed, try and try again. ?
300
Events that happen in a story.
What is plot?
300
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
What are guide words?
300
Beginning, middle, and end of the story.
What is the sequence of events?
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
Events leading up to the high point of the story.
What is rising action?
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?
What are graphic organizers?
400
The length of time the story lasts.
What is duration?
500
The most exciting part of a story is called the...
What is climax?
500
A story written about a young boy who moves to a new school and is bullied, but he gains self-confidence by joining a sports team and learns to stand up for himself. This story was written to...?
What is to entertain? The main purpose of a narrative is to entertain the reader.
500
Events that lead you to the solution of the story.
What is falling action?
500
Which two questions does SETTING answer? a) Who is involved? Why are they involved? b) What happened? Who was involved? c) Who are the main characters and what is the problem? d) When and where does the story take place?
What is answer d?
500
What is the feeling or atmosphere created when reading a story called?
What is mood?
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