Author's Purpose and Voice
Text Features
Author's Purpose and Voice part 2
Text Features Part 2
Point of view (author)
100

To tell a story that you would enjoy and make you laugh.

Entertain

100

Text that is next to photo or graphic.

caption

100

How the author writes; an author's use of language; its effects and appropriateness to the author's intent and theme.

Style

100

A diagram or pictorial device that shows relationships. 

Ex: Venn diagram,web,flow chart,story map.

Graphic Organizer

100

The vantage point from which a story is told 

Point of view (author)

200

The clear and easy expression of ideas,either written or spoken.

Fluency

200

Statements that can be proven true.

Facts

200

The author's purpose for writing (fact) argumentative, (emotions)persuade, (information)inform, or (enjoyment)entertain.

Author's Purpose

200

The title at the start of a page or section, usually bold or dark.

Heading

200

When the person telling the story is the main character.

Ex:My bad luck began with I walked into the market.

First person

300

To give information about a particular topic;to explain why something is important.

Inform

300

Statements that cannot be proven true. 

Opinion

300

The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters.

Ex:serious or humorous

Tone

300

A visual aid that condenses information into a series or rows,lines,or other shortened lists.

Charts, Tables, and Graphs

300

The narrator is talking to "you" 

Second Person 

400

The center of attention.

Focus

400

A secondary heading, the mini-topic related to the heading.

subheading

400

The fluency,rhythm and liveliness in writing that make it unique to the writer. Your written personality the "style" you write with (friendly,formal,everyday,short/long sentences.)

Voice

400

A secondary heading, the mini-topic related to the heading.

Subheading

400

Point of view in which the narrator is not a character in the story Pronoun them, they

Third Person

500

To convince others to feel a particular way about a topic.

Persuade

500

Photographs, drawings,maps,or other pictures that give additional information about the text.

Graphics

500

The center of interest or attention.

Focus

500

Statements that cannot be proven true

Opinions

500

The vantage point from which a story is told.

Point of view