Elements of NonFiction Quiz

What is Nonfiction?

• Literature generally based in fact. It is the broadest category of literature.

• Literature created from the imagination.

Nonfiction expresses the writer's unique point of view. What is point of view?

• A writer's perspective about a subject.

• A writer's purpose for writing.

• The sequence of events.

• The place and time that the story occurs.

What is tone?

• The writer's feelings.
• The purpose for writing.
• The attitude through words and phrases used by the author.
• The sequence of events.

Authors choose specific words and phrases to stir up positive or negative feelings. What is that called?

• Denotation
• Connotation
• Figurative Language
• Point of View

Photographs, maps, headings and glossary are all examples of ________

• point of view

• text features

• text structure

• central idea

What is the central idea?

• the main point of a piece of writing

• the information that supports the topic sentence
• the most interesting detail in a book
• the punctuation used in a paragraph

Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Brown are bakers.  They work at a store called Bake Goods to Go.  Mrs. Jones works nights.  She bakes cakes, cookies, and pies.  Mrs. Brown works in the daytime.  She bakes bread and rolls.  Both Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Brown are very good bakers.
What is the main idea?

• Mrs. Jones bakes pies.
• Mrs. Brown bakes rolls.
• Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Brown are bakers
• They work at a store called Bake Goods to Go.

If you wanted to find the main idea of an article, where would you look?

• In the first sentence
• In the first sentence of the second paragraph
• In the last sentence of the first paragraph
• There is no one place where the main idea is always found

It was backward day at school.  The students had to do things backward.  Some of them wore their T-shirts backward.  They took a test before they studied the lesson.  Dessert was served first instead of last.  They tried to walk home backward, but they bumped into each other and fell down. 
What is the main idea?

• Dessert is supposed to come last.
• The students had a backward day.
• It is hard to do things backward.
• Students failed their tests.

I can't wait until this weekend! We’re going to my grandparents’ house and my entire family will be there. I will spend most of my time playing games with my cousins. We always have such a good time together! The day goes by so fast, and by the end we are all exhausted... but we still don’t want to leave!
What is the main idea?

• Weekends are times to travel.
• The author enjoys spending time with her family.
• The author's grandparents live far away.
• The author is sad to leave her cousins.