Intro to Nonfiction [Glencoe 3080316]

Writing about real people and real events

• nonfiction

• autobiography

• memoir

• narrative

Telling about one events in the writer's own life

• nonfiction

• autobiography

• memoir

• narrative

a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

• nonfiction

• autobiography

• memoir

• narrative

short work of nonfiction on a single topic.

• essay

• formal

• informal, personal

• persuasive

This kind of essay may be intended to explain or persuade

• essay

• formal

• informal, personal

• persuasive

Meant primarily to entertain

• essay

• formal

• informal, personal

• persuasive

Intended to change the way people act and think.

• essay

• formal

• informal, personal

• persuasive

Persuasive essays and speeches contains arguments that persuades through which of the following ways?

• logic

• bribery

• reason

• evidence

If the author's purpose is to inform or explain, look for

• thesis & support

• figurative language, dialogue, suspense

• presenting an argument

• presenting emotional appeals

If the author's purpose is to entertain, look for

• thesis & support

• figurative language, dialogue, suspense

• presenting an argument

• presenting emotional appeals