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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.
What is setting?
100
The author's pupose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, descibe, _________, or ________.
What is to pursuade or 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 is BOLDED words?
100
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is the cast?
200
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
200
The author's purpose of a non-fiction text can never be to_____________.
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. They are similar to sentences in a passage.

What is a line?

200
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is topic sentece?
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, thoughts 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 pursuade?
300

Poetry that does not rhyme or have rhythm.

What is free verse?

300

When you are trying to figure out what a word means in a passage.

What are context clues?

300

The setting includes these 3 elements.

What is the time, place and environment?

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?
400

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

What are graphic features?

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
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

When a line of a poem ends with or without punctuation and another starts on the next line after the white space.

What is a line break?

500

Writers organize information 5 different ways.

What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, descriptive and sequence?

500
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?