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Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Text Features
Drama or Play
100

This word describes the time and place of a story. 

Setting

100

The author's pupose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, descibe, _________, or ________.

persuade, or inform. 

100

What do you call a group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph?

Stanza

100

These words let me know they are important to the story: 

 BOLDED words or UNDERLINED words

100

The name for the group of people in a play.

Cast/Character

200

The point of view told by someone in the story.

First-person

200

The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can be to ______ or ______.

Inform or explain

200
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?
200

Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.

Topic sentence

200
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?
300

The plot of the story includes the Introduction, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and ______.

Resolution

300

The author's purpose is the make the reader think or act a certain way

Argumentative text

300

Poetry that does not rhyme.

Free verse

300
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
What are guide words?
300

This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.

Setting

400

Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.

Theme

400

The author's purpose for writing fiction.

Entertain

400

Repitition of sounds or letters within a stanza or line.

Alliteration

400
Sometimes authors use graphs, charts, webs, or diagraphs to give the reader additional information or to help them undstand something better. What are these called?
What are graphic organizers?
400

Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.

Dialogue

500

The point of view when he, she, it, or they is primarily used?

Third-person

500

This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.

to inform

500

True or false: Poetry always rhymes.

False

500
Writers organize information 3 different ways.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence?
500

The person who carries the story along.

Narrator