Text Features
Story Elements
Drama
Poetry
Nonfiction
100
This text feature tells you what a story, article, or text is about.
What is the title.
100
When and where a story happens.
What is the setting.
100
people or animals in a play.
What is the actors.
100
Verses that end with words with similar ending sounds.
What is rhyming.
100
True statements in nonfiction texts.
What is facts.
200
This text feature gives you information or a description of a picture.
What is a caption.
200
People, animals or things that interact in a story.
What is characters.
200
Where the act takes place.
What is the stage.
200
A group of verses.
What is a stanza.
200
Phrases that tell you what parts of an article are about.
What is subtitles.
300
This text feature summarizes important events by dates.
What is a time line.
300
Events that worsen the problem.
What is rising events / actions.
300
Performers that speak to the audience to tell parts of the story.
What is the narrator.
300
a single line in a poem.
What is a verse.
300
Text structure that organizes information in logical and/ or chronological order.
What is sequence.
400
This text feature names the parts of an illustration.
What is labels.
400
Main events in a story including problem and solution.
What is the plot.
400
Objects use by actors in a play.
What is props.
400
A poem with no rhyme.
What is free verse.
400
Text structure that presents information highlighting similarities and differences.
What is comparing and contrasting.
500
This text feature highlights important words in a text.
What is bold print or italics.
500
The most intense, exciting, or important point in the story
What is the climax.
500
An instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
What is stage directions.
500
The number of syllables in a verse.
What is metrics.
500
Text structure that presents information emphasizing the reasons why something happened and the consequences.
What is cause and effect.
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