Story Elements
Fictional stories always include this description of time and place.
What is setting?
The author's purpose for writing a non-fiction selection 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?
This text feature helps me know which words in the text are important.
What are BOLDED or UNDERLINED words?
The name for the group of characters in a play.
What is the cast?
The point of viewas told by someone who is involved in the story.
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-- 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 each of the paragraphs will be about.
What are Headings/Subheadings
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis) or italics.
What is stage directions?
The actions and words of the characters in a story or selection.
What are character traits?
What is the the author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad-- includes words like "you should" and "best".
What is 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 that the story took place.
What is the setting?
The message or lesson of a story (is not explicitly stated, must be inferred).
What is a theme?
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is to entertain?
Poetry that has a plot, characters, setting-- is called __________________.
What is narrative poetry
Sometimes authors use these to show the reader where something is. What are these called?
What are maps?
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
The point of view when pronouns including: he, she, it, or they.
What is third person?
This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about how video games are created and developed is _______________.
What is to inform?
All poems have ______________ but not all poems _________________.
What is rhythm but not rhyme.
Writers organize information this way when one thing causes another.
What is cause and effect.
The person who gives the background information and carries the story along but is NOT part of the dialogue or in the story itself.
What is the narrator?