Non-fiction Text Features
Darker text than the normal shade of text
Bold Print
one of the main categories of genre known as "Story talk"
Fiction
Making a claim and using logic to back it
argument
how many main text structures are there
5
a writing or speech that is not to be taken literally
figurative language
Shows where a chapter or section begin
Heading
Texts that provide facts about a variety of topics would be in which of the two main genres?
nonfiction
the position you are trying to get your readers to accept
claim
cause and effect
the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
personification
Drawn image that shows what something might look like
illustration
A story using made up characters that could happen in real life set in present time
Realistic fiction
after each piece of evidence you need a ____
bridge
provides details of events in the order in which they happen
order and sequence
comparison using like or as
simile
Is like a dictionary for a specific text. It may contain pronunciations as well as definitions. Found at the back.
Glossary
A story written about someone's life
biography
demonstrating why the counter-argument is wrong
turn-back
a timeline would be a visual representation of which text structure?
order and sequence
a phrase made up of two or more words that actually have opposite meanings
oxymoron
If you wanted to quickly locate a specific topic in your history book, what text feature would you use?
Index
what does the prefix auto- mean?
self
Background information is found in what paragraph
introduction
what are the 5 main text structures
cause and effect, compare and contrast, order and sequence, problem and solution, description
BOOM!
onomatopoeia