Nonfiction Vocabulary

Tone

• The writer’s attitude toward his/her subject
  
• the feeling a reader gets from a story
  

Textual Evidence

• a conclusion drawn from available information
• available proof drawn from the facts and information provided in text
  

Inference

• available proof drawn from the facts and information provided in text
  
• a conclusion drawn from available information
  

Writer's Purpose

• PIE: persuade, inform, entertain
• To make tons of money!

Entertaining

• serious, dark

• humorous, witty

Opinion

• What the writer wants to accomplish

• A personal view or attitude

Nonfiction

• Type of writing about real persons, places, events

• From the writer's imagination

Satire

• Text that criticizes human weakness

• The writer's attitude toward his/her subect

Fact

• Text that uses logic

• A statement that can be checked by testing

Essay

• a short piece of writing on single topic

• a writer's account of another person's life