Story Elements
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
The author's pupose for writing non-fiction could be to _________ 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 of characters?
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
Includes information from the beginning, middle, and end of the passage.
What is summary?
By looking at the last word in each line, you can figure out this: the _________ _________.
What is the rhyme scheme?
These words may provide information about a photograph or illustration.
What is the caption?
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?
These are based on the actions and words of the characters and are used to describe what kind of person the character is.
What are character traits?
Which of the following is a simile?
A. The teacher likes when her class listens.
B. The road was as flat as a pancake.
C. I fell asleep as it began to rain.
What is B?
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?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme?
For our recycling project, we collected bottles, newspapers, and other kinds of "refuse". It is amazing to see what some people throw into the garbage. What is the meaning of "refuse"?
A. to say no or reject something
B. trash or rubbish
What is B?
This type of poem expresses the author's feelings and almost sounds like a song.
What is lyrical?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! This photograph or illustration is labeled to show the reader its parts.
What is a diagram?
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?
"The sea is a shiny emerald beneath the sky" is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
When a line of a poem ends and another starts on the next line.
What is a line break?
These are the three different text structures we have studied this year: cause and effect, sequence, and ________.
What is compare and contrast?
The person who carries the story along but does not act.
Who is the narrator?