Narrative Nonfiction
Informative Nonfiction
Literary Terms
Misc.
Reading Strategies
100
A type of nonfiction that presents the story of a period in a person's life.
What is a memoir?
100
Essays, speeches, and articles that explain a topic or promote an opinion.
What is informative nonfiction?
100
The author's reason for writing a work.
What is Author's Purpose?
100
The two common places where a thesis can be found within an essay.
What are Introduction and Conclusion?
100
WEM's four-step reading strategy is?
What is SQ2R?
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
A brief account of an interesting or amusing incident.
What is an anecdote?
200
A reference to another literary work.
What is an allusion?
200
WEM's instructional focus is?
What is Read to Know/ Write to Show?
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
The central idea of an essay.
What a Thesis?
300
A short piece of writing of nonfiction that examines a single subject.
What is an essay?
300
Help readers determing meaning by using words surrounding the unknown word.
What are context clues?
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
An author's point of view on a subject.
What is Author's Perspective?
400
Three possibilities for an author's purpose.
What is to inform, to persuade, or to entertain?
400
To express meaning in another way; to reword.
What is Restate?
500
Nonfiction works that tell a story and often have characteristics of fiction.
What is Narrative Nonfiction?
500
The most important idea expressed in a paragraph.
What is the Main Idea?
500
The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.
What is Tone?
500
When the opposite of what is expected occurs.
What is irony?
500
To draw a conclusion using logic and reasoning.
What is an inference?
M
e
n
u