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Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Text Features
Drama or Play
100
What is a description of time and place called in fiction?
What is setting?
100
The author's purpose for writing non-fiction could be to explain, describe, persuade, or _________,
What is to 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 BOLD words?
100
All the characters in a play.
What is the cast?
200
The point of view told by someone in the story and referred to as I or me.
What is first person?
200
The author's purpose of a non-fiction text is to?
What is persuade or inform?
200
A group of words that go from the left to the right and may or may not have punctuation at the end.
What is a line?
200
The order that things occur or happen in a story.
What is the sequence?
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
The actions and words of the characters are called this.
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
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
When something happens in a text that triggers something else to happen.
What is cause and effect?
300
A section of a play, like a chapter in a book.
What is an act?
400
Authors sometimes include this hidden message or lesson in their stories. Often this can be found in fables.
What is a moral?
400
The author's purpose for writing fiction.
What is to entertain?
400
The rhythm of poetry is called what?
What is meter?
400
When you want to know about the similarities and differences of two things.
What is to compare and contrast?
400
Conversations between two or more characters in a play.
What is dialogue?
500
The point of view when he, she, it, or they is primarily used?
What is third person?
500
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
Now, then, yesterday, later, soon, now are words to use to ________________ events in a story.
What is sequence?
500
A voice throughout the play that provides extra details and background information about characters and scenes.
What is the narrator?