Nonfiction Skills Vocabulary

A nonfiction text is written to entertain students?

• True

• False

All forms of nonfiction writing have certain basic elements. Which one of the following in not a nonfiction element?

• Central Idea

• Text Structure

• Author's Purpose

• Setting

Nonfiction writing tells about real people, places, objects, or events?

• True

• False

The reason the author writes something is called......

• Central Idea

• Author's Purpose

• Text Structure

• Author's Prespective

The organization of a nonfiction passage is called.....

• Author's Purpose

• Central Idea

• Author's Perspective

• Text Structure

The author's belief about a topic when writing is called......

• Author's Perspective

• Author's Purpose

• Central Idea

• Text Structure

Which of the following is not a type of informational nonfiction text structure?

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• Order and Sequence

• Persuade

Which of the following is not a type of author's purpose?

• Inform

• Problem and Solution

• Describe

• Entertain

What type of information nonfiction text structure is it when the passage is in steps, and the writer uses signal words?

• Order and Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

What type on text structure is it called when an event happens that makes another even happen?

• Cause and effect

• Order and Sequence

• Description

• Problem and Solution