Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Figurative Language
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...
What is to persuade or inform?
100
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
100
The boy ran as quick as a cheetah to get to his presents under the Christmas tree.
What is a simile?
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 "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" is....
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
The classroom was a zoo as the children left for recess.
What is metaphor?
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
The author's purpose of an advertisement is to...
What is to persuade?
300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
"Let's hit the road!" Dad shouted as we got ready to leave the house.
What is an idiom?
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 poetry.
What is to entertain or share feelings?
400
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
400
The sun danced across the morning sky.
What is personification?
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 or persuade?
500
When a line of a poem ends without punctuation and another starts on the next line.
What is a line break?
500
My teacher asked me a million times to stop talking.
What is hyperbole?
500
The person who carries the story along.
What is the narrator?