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 persuade or inform?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
This text feature that helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is BOLD print words?
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
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 entertain?
A group of words that go from the left to the right and may or may not have punctuation at the end in a poem.
What is a line?
Authors use this to let the reader know the main idea of a section.
What is a heading?
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis) or [brackets].
What is 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 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?
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
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 fiction.
What is to entertain?
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true? It´s a narrative poem!
Visual information that the author uses to show data, a specific object or an animal.
What are graphs, charts, and diagrams?
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?
This is the author's purpose in 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 4 different ways.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence or chronological order, and problem and solution?
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?