By the Book --
Fiction or Nonfition?
Elements of Fiction
Types of Fiction
Types of Nonfiction
Elements of Nonfiction
100
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is an example of this type of writing.
What is fiction?
100
These are the made-up people or animals in the story.
What are characters?
100
This kind of fiction deals with gods, goddesses, heros, and creatures. It usually explains a natural phenomenon.
What are myths?
100
This tells the story of someone's life.
What is a biography?
100
Sometimes nonfiction writing will feature this special kind of illustration that has an object "cut open" so you can understand the inside.
What is a cut-away diagram?
200
The Betty Crocker Cookbook is an example of this kind of writing.
What nonfiction?
200
This is the chain of events (or what happens) in the story.
What is the plot?
200
These fiction stories are based on real events from the past. Hint: Think about "The Dog of Pompeii."
What is historical fiction?
200
This tells the story of the author's life.
What is an autobiography?
200
True or false? Nonfiction never uses figurative language.
What is false? "The volcano SLEPT for 123 years." -- Personifiction
300
A book containing facts and information about sharks is this type of writing.
What is nonfiction?
300
This is the big problem in the story. There can be more than one of these!
What is conflict?
300
These fiction stories include magic, royalty, and a lesson. They often have people, events or objects in threes or sevens.
What are fairy tales?
300
These are written forms of communication from one person to another.
What are letters?
300
True or false? The index is helpful to find the chapters in a book.
What is false? The index lists key words in a book and gives pages numbers where you can find those words.
400
The Twilight series is this type of writing.
What is fiction?
400
This is the time and place of the story.
What is setting?
400
This type of fiction blends scientific facts with imaginative elements.
What is science fiction?
400
These books contain short entries on topics organzied alphabetically. Hint: You can't check these out of the Media Center.
What are encyclopedias?
400
This kind of nonfiction writing gives the reasons for and the results produced by the main idea.
What is cause and effect?
500
The instruction manuel that came with your new Easy-Bake Oven would be considered this kind of writing.
What is nonfiction?
500
This is the big idea or the lesson of the story.
What is theme?
500
This type of fiction is about crimes and unraveling secrets.
What are mysteries?
500
This kind of nonfiction book contains words and definitions.
What is the dictionary?
500
This kind of nonfiction writing is used to convince the reader to believe the writer's opinion. Facts are used to support the writer's points.
What is persuasive writing?
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