Historical, Scientific, and Technical

A text that describes the true events of something that once took place is a _________________ text.

• Historical

• Technical

• Scientific

A text that provides information about a topic (usually explaining a cause or reason something occurred) is a _____________ text.

• Scientific

• Technical

• Historical

A text that explains how to do something is a ______________ text.

• Technical

• Historical

• Scientific

The story of a person's life that is written by someone else is a __________________.

• autobiography

• biography

• encyclopedia

True writing, that is based on factual information is ___________.

• nonfiction

• fiction

A literary work that is based on the imagination and not on fact is ____________.

• nonfiction

• fiction

When a person writes a story about their own life it is called what?

• glossary

• biography

• autobiography

If you are reading a book and you look in the back of that same book for the definition of a word (it may be a word that is difficult, technical, or foreign) to understand what it means, you are looking in the ______________.

• dictionary

• glossary

• index

A book that contains information on many subjects; or a lot of information on a specific subject is called _______________. They are used a lot for research purposes.

• an encyclopedia

• an index

• a glossary

An alphabetical listing at the end of a book that gives page numbers where information about a topic can be found is the __________.

• glossary

• index

• dictionary