Nonfiction Terms

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

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

Created to present life experiences

• Narrative Nonfiction

• Expository Nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

Created to inform, describe or explain

• Narrative Nonfiction

• Expository Nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

• Audience

• Bias

• Structure

• Rhetoric

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

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

• Rhetoric

• Bias

• Narrator

• Audience

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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

• Bias

• Main Idea

• Purpose

• Speaker

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

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

• Main idea

• Propaganda

• Anecdote

• Structure

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

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

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6