Literary Nonfiction Vocabulary

a type of narrative based on actual persons, places, and things

• Literary Nonfiction

• Autobiography

• Context Clues

• Biography

identify and use relationships among surrounding words, phases, sentences and paragraphs

• Inference

• Context Clues

• Autobiography

• Point of view

What is a memoir? 

• historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources, a snip it of the person's life, not the whole thing. 

• historical account about a person written by another person over their entire life. 

• historical account about someone's dog. 

• story written by the author about their self. 

What is supporting evidence. 

• Evidence found at a crime scene. 

• Raisins on the floor. 

• Evidence found in a non fiction article that supports the author's argument. 

• Evidence found in a story that does not support the author's argument. 

What is the definition of anecdote?

• Numbers drawn from surveys, studies, or observations.

• A true story that describes an experience relative to the topic.

• The use of a person's words or conclusions to support a claim, where the person is distinguished by his or her expertise in the subject area.

• A statement that can be proved, and is generally accepted around the world as true.

Read about real person, place, or event

• Literary Nonfiction

• Informational

• Fiction

• Poetry

A memoir is written in what person?

• 3rd person 

• 1st person

• 2nd person 

This is a true story about someone's life written by that person.

• Autobiography

• Biography

• Both

written account of another person's life

• biography

• timeline

• accomplishment

pertaining to or of the nature of books or writings

• autobiography

• literary

• contribution