Nonfiction Vocab

These help to organize the text. Examples are bold print, graphs, illustrations and charts.

• text structures

• main idea

• text features

• summary

supporting evidence that comes from the text you are writing about

• text evidence

• central idea

• text features

• topic

a nonfiction film that uses primary and secondary sources

• biography

• bibliography

• documentary

• document

a slanted text to show titles in long works or quotes

• bold print

• underlined text

• italics

• poetry

a shortened version of a paraphrase

• summarizing

• paraphrasing

• hypnotizing

• thinking

a heading under a main heading of a text

• title

• paragraph

• topic

• subheading

current author has credentials and the website is truthful and reliable

• source reliability

• outsource

• wikipedia

• library book

prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about people, places, objects, or events

• poetry

• fiction

• nonfiction

• drama

taking another writer's words or ideas and making them your own without giving credit to the source

• paraphrasing

• plagiarizing

• summarizing

• justifying

a title or short description of a picture

• caption

• carton

• photo

• title