Nonfiction Terms

Writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

Created to present life experiences

• Narrative Nonfiction

• Expository Nonfiction

Created to inform, describe or explain

• Narrative Nonfiction

• Expository Nonfiction

Who the text is written for; who the author is trying to target

• Audience

• Bias

• Structure

• Rhetoric

The art of persuasion - three methods include ethos, pathos, logos

• Rhetoric

• Bias

• Narrator

• Audience

The reason an author decides to write about a specific topic.

• Bias

• Main Idea

• Purpose

• Speaker

The focus of the text - all information/evidence should support this term

• Main idea

• Propaganda

• Anecdote

• Structure

The way the audience or reader already feels about a topic or person prior to reading or listening to an author's ideas—may be favorable or unfavorable

• Anecdote

• Main Idea

• Audience

• Bias

A short story used to engage the audience that serves to make the listeners laugh or ponder over a topic - usually a "hook"

• Anecdote

• Propaganda

• Main Idea

• Structure

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view

• Propaganda

• Bias

• Audience

• Speaker