AVID Quiz 1 Unit 2

What are the 5 types of genres?

• Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama, Folktales, Poetry

• Science fiction, Fiction, Nonfiction, history, fantasy

• Nonfiction, Fiction, Folktales, Drama, Historical Fiction

• Poetry, Drama, Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography

Define nonfiction

• Writing that is not true

• A piece of writing that tells a story

• Writing about real-life events

• Writing that informs the reader

What are 3 ways to hook the reader when writing an Expository essay?

• Ask a question

  Create an anecdote (story)

  Create an interesting quotation

• Statistic

  Description

  Summary

  Details

Define biography

• a written account of a person's life, written by another person

• a written account of a person's life from the point of view of another person

• a piece of literature written by that person

Define autobiography

• The story of a person's life, written by another person

• The story of a person's life, written by that person