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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 peak of the story or the most exciting part of the story where things turn around

what is the climax

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 these to support the central idea of a text and to let the reader know what they are about to read 

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
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 pursuade?
300

when the author uses descriptive language to help the reader visualize what is happening in the poem

What is imagery

300

Authors include these in their text to show the readers an example of what they are talking about or to give the reader a visual

What are photographs

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 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 part of the story where the solution is revealed and resolved

what is resolution

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 3 different ways.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence?
500
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?