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Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Etc...
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 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 people in the play.

What are characters?

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. 

What is inform?

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

What the passage is mostly about. 

What is central idea, key idea, or main idea?

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 or have a certain meter.

What is free verse?

300
These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.
What are guide words?
300

This changes when the setting or characters change.

What is the scene?

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

A poem that tells a story.

What is narrative?

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 the narrator tells a story about other people.

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

Ways to organize writing.

What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem/solution, description, and sequence (chronological)?

500

The person who speaks to the audience but not to the characters.

What is the narrator?