Truth Be Told
A work that describes or documents historical, or “real life” events
What is nonfiction?
This is a type of nonfiction that most students have to write in English class.
What are essays?
This type of fiction is written in 1000 words or less, and can also be known as short short fiction.
What is flash fiction?
The beginning of the story when the main characters, setting, and the main conflict are introduced.
What is the exposition?
This book is about a sarcastic and funny teen couple battling cancer, discover love while dealing with big questions about life and death. (You need the title and author!)
What is The Fault in Our Stars by John Green?
This is what you do to properly cite a direct quote from a source.
What is quotation marks around the direct quote, and a page number in parenthesis?
This type of nonfiction would be found on the front page of a newspaper, or on the homepage of a news site online.
What is a feature story?
There are this many common characteristics that all flash fiction pieces share.
What are three?
The event that causes the rest of the story, which is also known as the catalyst.
What is the inciting incident or event?
This book is about two misfit teenagers who find an unexpected connection through comic books and mixtapes as they navigate complicated home lives and discover first love. (You need the title and the author!)
What is Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell?
This type of nonfiction is written by one person about another person's life.
What is a biography?
This type of nonfiction is when one person asks another person, or group of people about their thoughts and/or experiences. News reporters on the scene use this type of nonfiction often.
What are interviews?
The first common characteristic of flash fiction has to do with length. The entire story is compressed into only a few paragraphs, usually filling less than two full pages.
What is brevity?
These two parts of the plot together make the "plot mountain." The first includes the events that build to the climax, and the second includes the events that lead from the climax to the resolution.
What are the rising and falling action?
This is a graphic novel that shares the author's childhood experiences of being forced into Japanese American internment camps during World War II, showing the injustice and hardship his family faced. (You need the title and the author!)
What is They Called Us Enemy by George Takei?
This type of nonfiction is written by a person about their own lives.
What is an autobiography?
This type of nonfiction are found in newspapers, or more commonly now found on news sites online.
What are newspaper articles?
The second characteristic of flash fiction has to do with every piece having a beginning, middle, and an end.
What is a complete plot?
This is the "high point" of the story.
What is the climax?
This is a graphic novel where the author tells his father's true story of surviving the Holocaust, using different animals to represent Jewish people, Nazis, and Poles. (You need the title and the author!)
What is Maus by Art Spiegelman?
This type of nonfiction is usually written in multiple volumes, containing a little bit of information on a large number of things. Britannica is an online version of this type of nonfiction.
What is an encyclopedia?
This type of nonfiction is what is most commonly used by students in school to learn about any particular subject.
What are textbooks?
The third common characteristic of flash fiction is that they often incorporate some sort of twist ending, or unexpected lines at the end, meant to make the reader think more deeply.
What is surprise?
This is when the conflict is resolved and the story comes to a close.
What is the resolution or denouement?
This novel tells the story of two teenagers: one who is Black and brutally beaten by a white police officer, and the other, who is white and witnesses the event. (You need the title and the author!)
What is All American Boys by Jason Reynolds?