Story Elements
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?
This text feature makes words stand out to help me know they are important in the text.
What is BOLD?
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast?
The author's purpose for writing fiction is usually to __________.
What is entertain?
A group of words that go left to right and may or may not have punctuation at the end.
What is a line?
Authors use this to let the reader know what the main idea of a paragraph will be.
What is the topic sentence?
The words in italics, parenthesis, or brackets that tell what the characters should be doing on stage.
What are stage directions?
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 persuade?
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
What are guide words?
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
Authors sometimes include this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme?
The author's purpose for writing a narrative.
What is to tell a story?
Poetry that tells a story.
What is narrative?
Sometimes authors use graphs, charts, webs, or photographs to give the reader additional information or to help them understand something better. What are these called?
What are graphic features?
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
The author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day.
What is to inform?
When a poet ends one line and begins another.
What is a line break?
Writers organize information many different ways. The most common 3 text structures are __________, ___________, and ___________.
What are cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence?
The person who gives the audience information about the plot and helps keep the plot moving forward.
What is the narrator?