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, to describe, to ______ , or to ________.
What is to persuade or inform?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
This text feature helps the reader know what words are important in the text.
What are words in bold?
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 of a non-fiction text can never be to_____________.
What is to entertain?
A group of words that are read from left to right and may or may not have punctuation at the end.
What is a line?
Authors include this in the paragraph 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. These words are usually in parenthesis.
What are stage directions?
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 an iPad includes words like "you should" and "best".
What is to to persuade?
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
What are guide words?
This gives details about the time and place of the drama or play.
What is the setting?
Authors sometimes include this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is 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 the text.
What are 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.
What is to inform?
When one line of a poem ends without punctuation and continues on the next line.
What is a line break?
Name 3 ways authors organize information.
What are cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequencing?
Also acceptable answers - problem/solution, plot, chronological.
The person who carries the story along.
Who is the narrator?