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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 purpose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, describe, _________, or ________.

What is to persuade 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.
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 sentence?

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

The author organizes a text telling how peach cobbler and apple pie are both desserts, but have different ingredients.

What is compare and contrast?

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?
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?
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 without punctuation and another starts on the next line.
What is a line break?
500

Writers organize information 5 different ways.

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

500

The person who provides the audience with information about what is happening in the play.

What is the narrator?