Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Text Features
Drama/Play
&
Poetry
Figurative Language
100
This story element is who is in the story.

What is the characters? 

100

The author want the reader to believe or do

What is persuade?

100

This feature gives more detail about a picture.

What is a caption?

100

This section lists all the people in the play.

What is List of Characters?


100

A comparison using “like” or “as.”

What is a simile?

200

This story element is where and when does the story take place. 

What is the setting?

200

The author provides steps for the reader to 

What is Explain? 

200

This text feature helps me know what words are important in the text.


What is bolded words?


200

This is the conversation between characters.

What is dialogue?

200

A phrase that means something different than the literal words.

What is Idioms?


300

This story element is the important things that happens in the story that moves it forward. 

What is events?

300

The author's purpose of an advertisement about the best features of an ipad that includes words like you should and best.

What is persuade?

300

This text feature tells the main idea of a section.

What is Heading?
300

These are instructions that tell how characters should act or move.

Stage Directions
300

Language that helps you picture something in your mind.

What is imagery?

400
This story element is usually how the problem is solved or how does the story end. 

What is Resolution?

400

The author's purpose for writing fiction.

What is to entertain?

400

This feature gives smaller details under a heading.

What is subheading? 

400

Lines in a poem are grouped into these.

What is stanza?
400

Giving human traits to non-human things.

What is personification?

500

Usually the main message or lesson in from the story.

What is Theme?

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 graphic feature shows parts of something with labels.

What is a diagram?

500

The space in between stanzas?

What is line break?


500

This idiom "He carries the weight of the world on his shoulders" means ______

What is he has a lot of stress or responsibility?