Story Elements
A description of the time and place of a story.
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 helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is BOLDED/Underlined words?
The text feature that lets the reader know who is speaking in a drama.
What is a character tag?
The point of view told by someone in the story using "I", "me", "we".
What is first person?
"What is the most likely reason the author included" is just a fancy way to say..
What is WHY?
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?
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is central idea?
Topic Sentence
Main Idea
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?
These are based on the actions and words of the characters. Can be internal or external.
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 before each new section in non-fiction texts.
What are sub-headings?
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is the setting?
Authors sometimes includes 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.
Bonus: What style of poetry is this?
What is true?
Sometimes authors use graphs, charts, webs, or photographs to help the reader understand. What are these called?
What are graphic features?
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 of a newspaper article about the dangers of playing video games all day is _______________.
What is to inform?
What is a simile?
Writers organize information in 5 different structures.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequential, descriptive and problem/solution?
The person telling the story - not a character.
What is the narrator?