Story Elements
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
The author's purpose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, describe, _________, or ________.
What is to persuade or inform?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
An example of a text feature includes titles, subtitles, headings, and ________.
What is BOLDED words, photographs, captions, pictures, charts, graphs, or diagrams?
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The list of the names for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
The point of view told by someone in the story. You will see the words I, mine, me, or my.
What is first person?
The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can never be to_____________.
What is entertain?
A group of words in a poem that 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 topic sentence?
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage or what the crew should be doing backstage. These words are usually in (parenthesis) and/or italicized.
What are stage directions?
Ways to describe a character based on their own actions, thoughts, and words are?
What are character traits?
The author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an iPad that includes words like, "You should get this!" "It is the BEST product around!"
What is to persuade?
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
True or False. A dictionary entry can tell you how many syllables a word has and if it has multiple definitions.
What is true?
This gives details about the time and place that the story happened.
What is the setting?
Authors sometimes include this message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme?
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is to entertain?
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
Sometimes authors use graphs, charts, webs, or diagrams to give the reader additional information or to help them understand something better. What are these called?
What are text features or graphic organizers?
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 author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is to inform?
When a line of a poem ends without punctuation and another starts on the next line.
What is a line break?
Writers organize their information in nonfiction reading passages or articles in 5 different ways. Tell me one of them.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, description, or time order/sequence?
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?