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Story Elements
Author's Purpose
Poetry
Text Features
Drama or Play
100
Fiction always includes this description of time and place.
What is setting?
100

The author's purpose for writing a story with animals that speak.

What is to entertain?

100
A group of lines in poetry, similar to a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
100

This text feature helps me know what a section is mainly about.

What is heading or section heading?

100

The name for the group of people in a play.

What is the cast of characters?

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

Author's may use this to let the reader know what the main idea of the paragraph will be.  It is usually in the beginning or at the end of the paragraph.

What is a topic sentece?

200

These are the words that tell what the characters should be doing while on stage. These words are usually in (parenthesis).  They may also tell you about the setting.

What are stage directions?

300

The person telling the story/speaking in a text.

What is narrator?

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

These words are located at the top of dictionary pages.

What are guide words?

300

The reason plays/dramas have acts and scenes.

What is to change 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 fiction.
What is to entertain?
400
True or False. Poetry can tell a story.
What is true?
400

The words that are with an illustration or picture.

What is a caption?

400

Lines that are spoken between two or more characters.  They may be in quotation marks.

What is dialogue?

500

The point of view when the narrator is not part of the story.

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

The beat or rhythm of a poem.

What is meter?

500

Writers organize information in different ways.  This text structure gives you information in order and usually has dates or words like first, then.

What is chronological order or sequence?

500

The events that happen in the play - including the main characters, setting, conflict, and resolution.

What is plot?