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

Fiction always includes this description of time and place. (when and where)

What is setting?

100

The author's pupose for writing non-fiction

What is to inform?

100
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
100

This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.

What are BOLDED or ITALIC words?

100

The name for the group of people in a play.

What is the cast or characters?

200
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
200

Johnny rode his bike to the park with his dog.  His dog saw a squirrel and began to chase it.  Johnny pedaled as fast as he could until he saw his dog barking under a tree at the squirrel.  He quickly put a leash on his dog and took him home. 

What author's purpose is this passage?

What is entertain?

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

Words that point to parts of a photograph or illustration.

What are labels?

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
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What are character traits?
300

Tha 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?

300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300

A sentence under a photograph or illustration that tells you about it?

What is caption?

300
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is the setting?
400
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme?
400
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is to entertain?
400

True or False. Poetry can tell a story.

What is true? (Narrative poems)

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.
What is dialogue?
500

The point of view when he, she, it, or they is primarily used? (someone outside the story tells it)

What is third person?

500
This is the author's purpose of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is to inform?
500

Poetry that seems to flow like a song.  It may or may not rhyme.

Is it free verse, lyrical, or narrative?

What is a lyrical?

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.

What is the narrator?