Nonfiction Review Game

The author wants to give you information.

• Entertain

• Persuade

• Inform

the author wants to amuse you or for you to enjoy the writing

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

the author wants you to do, buy, or believe something 

• persuade
• inform
• entertain

textbooks, non-fiction books, expository essays, biographies, newspaper articles, and directions are examples of:

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

advertisements, persuasive letters, opinions, campaign speeches are all examples of: 

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He was born on February 12, 1908 in Kentucky.  One of his famous speeches was the Gettysburg Address.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

In a poem, the author's purpose is to:

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

What is the author's purpose?
A sticker on a frozen pizza with directions explaining how to cook the pizza and offering nutritional information

• Inform
• Persuade
• Entertain

What is the authors purpose?
"Eating too much cake and not exercising will give us health problems."

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Volunteering is a very rewarding experience. There are many ways you can volunteer.  For example, you can help clean up a playground. Volunteering benefits other people and will also make you feel good about yourself.

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade