Nonfiction Quiz

Nonfiction

• tells about real people, places, objects, or events

• made up stories for entertainment

writing used to convince the reader to agree with the author about an issue

• persuade

• teach

• entertain

• inform

to give knowledge to; tell

• persuade

• entertain

• inform

• argue

writer’s attitude toward a topic

• tone

• mood

• font

• caption

resembles an outline; has a main idea and details

• chronological order

• cause and effect

• problem and solution

• description/list

follows the order in which events happened or steps in a process

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

• chronological order

• problem and solution

tells what happened and why

• chronological order

• cause and effect

• problem and solution

• compare and contrast

bring to light an issue and possible solution to fix it

• cause and effect

• chronological order

• compare and contrast

• problem and solution

similarities and differences between things

• problem and solution

• compare and contrast

• description/list

• chronological order

the different parts of text other than the main story itself

• nonfiction text features

• graph

• side bar

• caption