Vocabulary
Elements of Nonfiction
Types of Nonfiction
Before Hip-Hop
On Summer
100
To understand something that is complicated or difficult.
What is Comprehend?
100
In this a speaker address a topic in front of a live audience
What is a Speech?
100
Mary Landrieu and Bill Cassidy are making these kinds of speeches
What is Persuasive?
100
The Author
Who is Rebecca Walker?
100
The Author
Who was Lorraine Hansberry?
200
A piece of information that is known to be true
What is a fact?
200
This type examines and discusses a focused topic, including the writer's personal viewpoints.
What is an Essay?
200
The style of an essay focusing on one of your childhood experiences
What is Informal?
200
The place the author moved to for high school
What is the Bronx?
200
The author's feelings about summer at the start
What is negative/bad/didn't like it?
300
People books or documents that supply you with information
What are Sources?
300
The author's attitude toward the subject matter
What is the Tone?
300
The tone of an article summarizing the Civil War for high school students
What is Factual?
300
The school that she attended
What is Public School 141?
300
Name two states that our author visits
What is Tennessee, New York, Maine
400
The natural ability to think, behave or react in a particular way without learning or thinking about it first
What is Instinct?
400
Includes an author's level of language, diction or word choice and use of figurative language
What is Style
400
The style of a descriptive essay focusing on a field of sunflowers in bloom
What is Sensory?
400
The central idea of the essay dealt with this kind of revolution
What is Cultural?
400
This person made the author appreciate and understand summer
Who was the woman with cancer in Maine?
500
A set of numbers that represent facts or measurements
What are Statistics?
500
Nonfiction has purposes that can be a dessert
What is PIE - Persuasive, Informative and Entertaining
500
This publication gives information about a specific topic, person or event
What is an Article?
500
Hip Hop taught our author learned these things about real life
What is Loyalty, community, self confidence, creativity?
500
Respect for summer "the noblest of seasons"
What is the authors attitude at the end?
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