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

The time and place of a story.

What is setting?

100

The three main purposes an author might have for writing.

What is entertain, persuade, and 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 when there is a line underneath the word.

What is underlined words?

100

The name for the group of people in a play.

What is the cast of characters?

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

The author's purpose telling a story about a boy and his dog going on an adventure.

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

Authors use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the section will be.

What is a heading?

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

This is the most exciting part of the story where we are left on a cliffhanger of what will happen.

What is the climax?

300

The author's purpose of an advertisement giving you reasons to buy a ticket to Six Flags.

What is to persuade?

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

Words under a picture that tell you about the picture

What are captions?

300
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is the setting?
400

The message or lesson an author teaches the reader.

What is a theme?

400

Persuade means to...

Convince someone to do something.

400

A comparison of two unlinke things using like or as

What is a simile?

400

When something is told in time order (first, next, then)...

What is chronological order/sequence?

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?
What is third person?
500

The author's purpose of an article about Taylor Swift's life.

What is to inform?

500

Giving human qualities to an animal, thing, or idea.

Personification

500

Writers organize information in 5 different ways.

What are cause and effect, compare and contrast, chronological order, problem and solution, and description?

500

The different sections of a drama separated by a change in the setting.

What is a scene?