Story Elements
The description of time and place.
What is setting?
The author's pupose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, descibe, _________, or ________.
What is to persuade or inform?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
The point of view told by the narrarator in the story from their point of view.
What is first person?
The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can never be to_____________.
What is entertain?
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 a picture is about.
What is a caption?
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis).
What are stage directions?
This includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is the plot?
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?
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
A brief overview of a non-fiction text.
What is central idea?
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme?
The author's purpose for usually writing fiction.
What is to entertain?
Sometimes authors use graphs, charts, webs, or diagrams to give the reader additional information or to help them undstand something better. What are these called?
What are graphic features?
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?
When a line of a poem ends without punctuation and another starts on the next line.
What is a line break?
Writers organize information 5 different ways.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, description and sequence/chronological order?
Another name for the problem in a drama.
What is the conflict?