Narrative Nonfiction
Informative Nonfiction
Vocabulary
Literary Terms
Misc. II
100
A type of nonfiction that presents the story of a period in a person's life.
What is a memoir?
100
This is essays, speeches, and articles that explain a topic or promote an opinion.
What is informative nonfiction?
100
The act of cutting off or apart.
What is severance?
100
The author's reason for writing a work.
What is author's purpose?
100
"Black Boy," the story of Richard Wright's life from his perspective, is an example of this type of nonfiction.
What is an autobiography?
200
The account of a person's life written by someone other than the subject.
What is a biography?
200
An essay that promotes an opinion.
What is a persuasive essay?
200
To comfort or cheer someone experiencing sorrow or disappointment.
What is to console?
200
A brief account of an interesting or amusing incident.
What is an anecdote?
200
Nonfiction works that tell a story and often have characteristics of fiction.
What is narrative nonfiction?
300
A story of a person's life written by that person from the first-person point view.
What is an autobiography?
300
An essay that explains a topic, such as reporting the news.
What is an expository essay?
300
Loud, continuous noise.
What is din?
300
The central idea of an essay.
What is a thesis?
300
These tend to focus on one period of a person's life, rather than all of it.
What are memoirs?
400
A type of narrative nonfiction where a writer relates a true story in short composition, such as "Field Trip."
What is a narrative essay.
400
Advice columns, movie reviews, and editorials are examples of these.
What are persuasive essays?
400
Extraordinary in size, number, or degree.
What is prodigious?
400
Three possibilities for an author's purpose.
What is to inform, to persuade, or to entertain?
400
Setting, characters, theme, plot, and conflict are some of the characteristics that this shares with fiction.
What is narrative nonfiction?
500
"Life on the Mississippi" and "Night" both fall under this catefory of narrative nonfiction.
What are memoirs?
500
The two common places where a thesis can be found within an essay.
What is the beginning or end of an essay?
500
Showing an exaggerated sense of self-importance.
What is pompous?
500
Authors use these to support or explain an idea, to entertain readers, or to reveal personality.
What are anecdotes?
500
An author tends to emphasize these two things in a memoir.
What is their relationships with other people or the impact of significant historical events on their life.
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