Story Elements
What is setting?
The description of time and place.
What is the author's purpose of informative text?
The author's pupose for writing non-fiction/informative text is to inform us or teach us about something real.
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What are BOLDED words?
This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.
What is the cast of characters?
The name for the group of people in a play.
What is first person?
The point of view told by someone in the story such as themselves, I, we, us
Whats the author's purpose to creating a fiction text?
The author's purpose of a fiction text is normally to entertain us.
What is a line?
A group of words, they go from the left to the right and may or may not have punctuation at the end.
What is topic or theme sentence?
Author's use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
What is stage directions?
These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis).
What are character traits?
These are based on the actions and words of the characters.
What is to persuade?
The author's purpose of persuasive text is to convince us to do something like a TV ad.
Give me an example of a poetry element
stanza, line, rhyme, etc
What non-fiction characteristic has important words with definations .
glossary
What is the setting?
This gives details about the time and place that the story took place.
What is a theme?
The author's hidden message or lesson in their story
Think of examples of persuasive text
TV ad, any type of ad, commercials, flyers, etc
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
true
What are graphic organizers?
Sometimes authors use graphs, charts, webs, or diagraphs to give the reader additional information or to help them undstand something better.
What is dialogue?
Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.
What is third person?
The point of view such as he, she, they
Example of informative text
nonfiction text, newspaper,, news, etc
Do all poems rhyme?
no
List all 5 text structures.
cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, description and sequence
What is the narrator?
The person who says the story but isn't in the story.