Story Elements
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
The author's purpose for writing nonfiction could be to explain, describe, persuade or ________.
What is to 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 are BOLD PRINT 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.
What is first person?
The author's purpose when writing a poem is usually to do this, although poetry can also be educational and inspire us to see things differently.
What is to 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 a heading or a topic sentence?
This is the term for speaking loudly, as you would do during a play, speech or recitation.
What is voice projection?
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 a toy that includes words like "you should" and "the best".
What is to persuade?
A comparison often used in poetry or prose that compares two unlike things to create a vivid, imaginative picture in your mind.
What is a metaphor?
(Similes are comparisons that use "like" or "as".)
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 include this underlying, central message or universal idea reflecting deeper insights into human nature, society, or life.
What is a theme?
The author's purpose for writing fiction is firstly to do this.
What is to entertain?
The rhyming pattern of a poem is called this.
What is the rhyme scheme?
Authors often organize information by listing events in chronological (time) order. This is also called _____________.
What is sequence, or sequential order?
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
The point of view when "he, she, it, or they" are primarily used.
What is third person?
This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the negative affects of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is to inform?
The structured, rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables within a line of verse, serving as the "beat" of a poem.
What is poetic meter?
Writers organize information 3 main ways. One way is cause and ___________.
What is effect?
The person who carries the story along.
Who is the narrator?