Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Science Fiction includes.... (mark all that apply)

• real life details about science and technology

• takes place in the past or in space

• may include monster-like characters

• may include events that are historical

The difference between nonfiction and nonfiction narratives is...

• authors use dialogue and plot devices for nonfiction

• nonfiction narratives uses charts diagrams and graphs

• both give facts about a topic

• both use embellishments

Historical fiction includes.... (mark all that apply)

• Gives facts about a topic

• Based on real events from the past

• Author includes made up details and embellishments

• Includes characters with special powers.

Fiction in it's purest form.... (mark all that apply)

• Tells a story that is partly made up

• it uses dialogue

• Includes characters, setting and plot

• May present real events from the future.

Fiction and Nonfiction share the following....(mark all that apply)

• Can include scientific or historical facts.

• Includes graphs and diagrams

• Has sections divided by headings.

• May present information in the form of a story.

Fiction, Science Fiction and Historical fiction sections are divided by...

• Headings, subheadings

• Chapters

• Plot events

• Character's point of view

WHAT POINT OF VIEW IS THIS EXAMPLE BELOW.

You might come here Sunday on a whim.

Say your life broke down. The last good kiss

you had was years ago. You walk these streets

laid out by the insane, past hotels

that didn't last, bars that did, the tortured try

of local drivers to accelerate their lives.

Only churches are kept up. The jail

turned 70 this year. The only prisoner

is always in, not knowing what he's done.

• Third Person Limited

• FIrst Person

• Second Person Omniscient

• Second Person

WHAT IS THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLE.

When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister how very much she admired him."

He is just what a young man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners! -- so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!"

"He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete."

• THIRD PERSON LIMITED

• SECOND PERSON

• THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT

• FIRST PERSON

WHAT POINT OF VIEW IS THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLE

If he could have heard what her parents were saying that evening, if he could have put himself at the point of view of the family and have heard that Kitty would be unhappy if he did not marry her, he would have been greatly astonished, and would not have believed it. He could not believe that what gave such great and delicate pleasure to him, and above all to her, could be wrong. Still less could he have believed that he ought to marry.

• SECOND PERSON LIMITED

• THIRD PERSON LIMITED

• THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT

• FIRST PERSON

IN NONFICTION TEXTS AUTHORS MAY USE WHAT STRUCTURES?

• Rising action, climax, falling action, exposition and resolution

• chronological order or time with flashbacks

• embellishments

• chronological order, cause and effect, present ideas and explain how they relate to the text.