Story Elements
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
The author's purpose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, describe, _________, or ________.
What is to pursuade or inform?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is BOLDED words?
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast?
The point of view told by someone in the story using "I, me, or we".
What is first person?
The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can never be to_____________.
What is entertain?
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?
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is topic sentece?
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis). Offstage, the mother yells "come home".
What is stage directions?
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What are character traits?
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 pursuade?
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
What are guide words?
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is the setting?
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories. Such as "Hard work pays off".
What is a theme?
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is to entertain?
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
A phrase or sentence located under a photograph or illustration that explains the picture.
What is a caption?
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
The point of view when he, she, it, or they is primarily used?
What is third person?
This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is to inform?
These literary devices are used when a poet want to use comparisons that go beyond literal meaning. The words mean more than what they say on the surface.
What is figurative language?
The graphic organizer used to compare two different characters in a story.
What is Venn Diagram or Double Bubble?
The person who speaks but is not a character and carries the story along.
What is the narrator?