Reasons For Writing
Types of Stories
Random
FINAL JEOPARDY!!!!
100
When an author chooses his/her words to write something.
What is The Purpose?
100
These pieces use Facts, Details/Instructions, Places, Events, and/or People.
What are Information pieces?
100
The author tried to capture a suspenseful mood in the story
What is To Entertain?
200
The three main purposes that authors write.
What is To Entertain, To Inform, and To Persuade?
200
These stories are based on facts and the authors opinions about a subject.
What is Non-Fiction pieces?
200
An emotional appeal to do the right thing and encourages you to do something.
What is Persuade?
300
When the author wants the reader to believe his/her position.
What is To Persuade?
300
This creates a mood or feeling you get from reading the selection.
What are Fiction pieces?
300
These pieces could be biographies, articles from textbooks, newspaper and magazine articles.
What are Non-Fiction Pieces?
400
What it means when the readers learns something from the selection.
What is To Inform?
400
These stories contains the author’s opinions and are usually non-fiction.
What are Persuasive pieces?
400
The purpose of this writing form is to inform and sometimes to persuade.
What is Non-Fiction?
500
When the goal of the author is to tell a story or to describe characters, places, or events (real or imaginary)
What is To Entertain?
500
Examples of these texts are plays, poems, stories, jokes, and/or comic strips.
What are Entertaining text?
500
The purpose of this type of text is to entertain the reader.
What is Fiction?
500
Is there a fourth Authors Purpose? If so, what is it?
What is Describe?
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