Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Text Features
Drama or Play
100
What is the term for the description of time and place? 
What is setting?
100

This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.

What is to 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 or underlined words?
100
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
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 in a stanza, 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 main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is subtitles?
200

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

What is stage directions?
300
These are determined by 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 like "you should" and "best."
What is to persuade?
300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
Pictures often have these descriptions near them to help the reader understand what they are looking at.
What are captions?
300
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is the setting?
400
Authors sometimes include 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?
What are graphic organizers?
400
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
500
The order of main events in the story.
What is the plot?
500

The author's pupose for writing non-fiction could be to _________, ________, explain, or describe. (hint: PIED)

What is to persuade and inform?

500
It is most likely you will see poetry in the test in what type of passage?
What is a paired passage?
500
Writers organize information in 5 different text structures.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence, chronological, and problem and solution?
500
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?
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