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, describe, _________, 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 or actors?
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 help the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is title or subtitle?
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 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 are labeled in order for the reader to understand the parts of something.
What are diagrams?
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
When something is being compared by giving it a new name
What is a metaphor?
400
Sometimes authors give additional information related to the topic or picture. It is usually located at the side of a page.
What is a side bar?
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 two things are being compared using like or as.
What is a simile?
500
Writers organize information in 5 different ways.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence, description and problem and solution?
500
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?
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