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Story Elements
Fiction
Poetry
Text Features
Drama or Play
100
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
100
The events in this story could actually occur (happen).
What is realistic fiction?
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 person who write a play.
What is the playwright?
200
The point of view told by someone in the story.
What is first person?
200
The part of the story where the conflicts are at its craziest.
What is climax?
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 this to give a clue of what the main idea of the paragraph will be.
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
The part of a story that the characters resolve their conflicts.
What is a resolution?
300
Poetry that does not rhyme.
What is free verse?
300
These words are located under a photograph to describe what is going on in the photograph.
What are captions?
300
This is similar to chapters in a fiction book. It separates the different conflicts of the drama.
What are scenes?
400
Authors sometimes includes this hidden message or lesson in their stories.
What is a theme?
400
The strategy we use to break up a fiction passage and find the best summary.
What is BME?
400
True or False. Poetry can have a theme.
What is true?
400
The part of the story separated by the headings.
What are sections of the text?
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
Readers use their prior knowledge and evidence from the story to make this connection.
What is an inference?
500
This type of poem rhymes.
What is a lyrical poem?
500
Writers organize information 3 different ways.
What is cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequence?
500
The person who describes the actions/talks throughout the story.
What is the narrator?