Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Expository
Drama or Play
100
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
100
The author's purpose for writing a non fiction (expository or informational text) is to ____________ or ____________?
What is to explain or inform?
100
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
100
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is topic sentence?
100
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is cast of characters?
200
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
200
The author's purpose of an expository 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
Strategy used for summarizing expository text.
What is main idea?
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 characters.
What is character traits?
300
The author's purpose of a commercial 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
If they ask you how some paragraphs are organized what do you need to look for?
What is text structure?
300
What do the stage directions that include place and or time in the very beginning of the play usually establish?
The setting.
400
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories (thing of the changes a character goes through).
What is a theme?
400
The author's purpose for writing fiction?
What is to entertain?
400
Poetry that tells a story.
What is narrative poem?
400
Text structures can description, compare and contrast, sequencing, ____________ and/or _____________.
What is cause and effect and/or problem and solution?
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 article about the dangers of playing video games all say is ____________.
What is to inform?
500
How do you know this text is a poem? It has _________, ____________, and _____________.
What is lines, stanzas, and rhyme?
500
An author tries to convince you of something, the purpose of the author is to ______________.
What is persuade?
500
The person who carries the story (or tells) along.
What is narrator?
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