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 persuade or inform?
100
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
100
This text feature helps readers know which words are important in the text.
What are BOLD words?
100
The name for the group of people in a play.
What are characters?
200
The point of view told by a character in the story.
What is first person?
200
The author's purpose for writing a fiction text.
What is entertain?
200
A group of words that 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 are stage directions?
300
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What are character traits?
300
The author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad that includes words such as, " you should and best."
What is to persuade?
300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
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 primary reason the author wrote the text.
What is author's purpose?
400
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
400
Sometimes authors use headings, graphs, pictures, illustrations, diagrams to show additional information.
What are text features?
400
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
500
The point of view from an outside observer in a story.
What is third person?
500
This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day.
What is to inform?
500
The point at which two lines of text are split.
What is a line break?
500
When writers organize their text by stating "why" and "what happened".
What is cause and effect?
500
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?
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