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Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry & Figurative Language
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.

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.
What is a line?
200

This text feature is usually at the top of a section and tells what that part of the text will be about.

What is 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

This story element includes the important events that happen in order in a story.

What is the plot?

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

This type of figurative language compares two things using “like” or “as.”

What is a simile?

300

This text feature gives a short explanation under a picture to help the reader understand it.

What is a caption?

300

These are the parts of a play that divide it into sections, often showing a change in time or place.

What are acts (or scenes)?

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

This type of figurative language compares two things without using “like” or “as.”

What is a metaphor?

400

This text feature is a labeled drawing that shows parts of something and how they work.

What is a diagram?

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

This gives human qualities to animals, objects, or ideas.

What is personification?

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?