Literary Lemur Presents: Text Structure Author’s Purpose Elements of Fiction

1. Literary Lemur Presents:Text StructureAuthor’s PurposeElements of Fiction

2. What is Text Structure? How information in a passage is organized We will REVIEW sixcommon patterns: • Chronological • Cause and Effect • Compare and Contrast • Problem and Solution • Sequence / Process • Spatial / Descriptive

3. Chronological Information is organized in order of time. Chrono = time Logic = order Example Jill came tumbling after. Jack fell down and broke his crown. Jack and Jill ranup the hill to fetcha pail of water. ALL stories are told chronologically.

4. Cause and Effect An action and its results are explained. Cause Effect Students did not learnthe material. They performed poorly on the test. • Don’t confuse with chronological. • Won’t have a beginning, middle, and end. • Time won’t progress much.

5. Compare and Contrast Tells how two things are similar and different. Apples & Oranges Alike Different 1. Both are fruits. 1. People don’t eat orange skins. 2. Both have skin. 2. Oranges have more juice.

6. Problem and Solution A problem and answer are suggested. Problem Solution Property is beingspray painted. Require a licenseto buy spray paint. • Don’t confuse with cause and effect. • It is presented as a PROBLEM.

7. Sequence/Step by Step Information is listed step-by-step. Explains how to do it or how it happens. 4. Flip omelet. Don’t confuse with chronological! 3. Cook onone side. 2. Add cheese. Does not occur at a specific time. 1. Crack a few eggs.

8. Spatial/Descriptive Writing Describes something in order of space. Describes how something looks. TIME DOESN’T PASS in these passages. My bedroom A television across from the bed. Two windows on the west Wall A bed in the middle. A closet by the TV

9. What is Author’s Purpose? Reasons for Writing To Entertain To Inform To Persuade Every text serves one of these purposes.

10. Writing to Entertain The MAIN purpose is to amuse readers. Examples • Stories • Poems • Plays You may learn something from a story, but the MAIN purpose is to entertain.

11. Writing to Inform The MAIN purpose is to enlighten the reader. Examples Expository essays Nonfiction texts Instructions or directions Informational writing may be entertaining, but the MAIN purpose is to inform.

12. Writing to Persuade The MAIN purpose is to convince the reader. Examples Persuasive Essays Persuasive Speeches Persuasive Letters or notes Persuasive writing attempts to change the reader’s mind or get them to do something.

13. Elements of Fiction

14. Setting • the time, place and period in which the action takes place. • in some works of fiction action is so closely related to setting that the plot is directed by it. • can establish the atmosphere of a work.

15. Plot The series of events and actions that takes place in a story. • Exposition • Rising Action • Climax • Falling Action • Denouement

16. Conflict • Man vs. Man • Man vs. Nature • Man vs. Society • Man vs. Himself • Bonus: Man vs. _______