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 pursuade or inform?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
These 3 text features help me know what words are important in the text.
What are bold, italicized, and underlined words 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. Can include the use of the pronouns I, me, or we.
What is first person?
The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can never be to_____________.
What is 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 topic or thesis sentence?
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?
These are based on the actions, feelings, thoughts, and words of the characters.
What are character traits?
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?
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 that the story took place.
What is the setting?
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme or moral?
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?
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 information 3 different ways.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence?
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?