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Story Elements
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Poetry
Text Features
Drama or Play
100

When and where a fiction story takes place.

What is setting?

100

Edit the following sentence.

mark and i are going on the bus walking home and eating pizza


Mark and I are going on the bus, walking home, and eating pizza.

100
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
100

This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.

What are BOLDED or highlighted words?

100

The name for the group of people in a play, usually outlined in the beginning of a play.

What is the cast of characters?

200
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
200

Edit the following sentence:

i think i can do my work today, said sergio.


"I think I can do my work today," said Sergio.

200

A group of words, they go from the left to the right and may or may not have punctuation at the end. Often seen as a sentence of a poem.

What is a line?

200
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is topic sentece?
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

Characters are talking, can be used in poetry, plays, or prose. Usually uses quotation marks

What is dialogue?

300

Edit the following sentence:

you can exercise by your self or with a group of people


You can exercise by yourself or with a group of people.

300

The words Mike and Ike are examples of...

What are rhyming words?

300
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
What are guide words?
300
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is the setting?
400
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme?
400

Edit the following sentence:

some peeple like to exercize outside while others enjoy exercised inside


Some people like to exercise outside, while others enjoy exercising inside.

400
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
400

Sometimes authors include photographs and pictures in their text. These usually come with small words underneath it, used to explain the connection between the photographs/pictures and the text. They are called...

What is a caption?

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

Edit the following sentence:

you could also use the metle from a old umbrella to make a creative lighting fixture


You could also use the metal from an old umbrella to make a creative lighting fixture.

500

When a poem has a beat and sounds like music it could be called...

What is rhythm?

500

Writers organize information 4 different ways.

(What are the 4 different text features?)

What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence/chronology, problem and solution?

500

The person who carries the story along, usually not a character inside of the play.

What is the narrator?