Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Text Features
Drama or Play
100

The description of time and place.

What is setting?

100

The three main types of author's purpose.

What is to persuade, inform and entertain?

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 is BOLDED words?
100

The name for the group of people in a play.

What is the cast?

200

The point of view told by someone in the story.

What is first person?

200

The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can NEVER be to_____________.

What is entertain?

200
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?
200

You can look here to find out the main idea.

What is topic sentence and title?

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

Description of the character based on the actions and words of the characters.

What are character traits?

300

The author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad that includes words like you should and best.

What is to pursuade?

300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300

Words that are separated from the rest of the text.

What is a text box?

300

This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.

What is the setting?

400

The message or lesson in a story.

What is a theme?

400
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is to entertain?
400
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
400

Tells you what a picture is about.

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
This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is to inform?
500

Songs are this form of poetry.

What is a lyrical poem?

500

Writers organize information 3 different ways.

What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence?

500

The person who carries the story along.

What is the narrator?