Genres of Non-fiction
Typically, you would read one of these in The Guardian.
What is an (newspaper) article?
It is usually written in verse
What is poetry?
A 5-sided analysis model (Bonus)
What is the rhetorical pentagram?
The British word for a truck
What is a lorry?
He used to fire people on TV.
Who is President Trump?
One-way communication which seeks to control your political views and behaviour.
What is propaganda?
A third-person narrator who knows what everyone thinks and does.
What is an omniscient narrator?
Giving animals, gods, or objects human qualities.
What is a personification or an anthropomorphism?
A language used by people to communicate who do not have a shared first language. (The conversation is devoid of grammar, culture and historic understanding.)
What is a lingua franca? (Bonus)
A language used by people to communicate who do not have a shared first language. (The conversation is devoid of grammar, culture and historic understanding.)
What is a lingua franca? (Bonus)
This is a type of persuasive "writing" and we will probably see it a lot before the up-coming midterms
What is a (political) speech?
What many Danish students start by calling a novel.
What is a short story?
A doctor wears his lab-coat for a TV-interview to make a convincing argument
What is an example ethos?
This royal family were famous and solidified English as a European powerhouse. Bloody Mary belonged to this family.
Who are the Tudors (Henry VII and Elizabeth I)
The right to bear arms are protected by this federal law.
What is the 2nd amendment?
A video depiction of reality often for educational purposes.
What is a documentary?
1984 by George Orwell is a great representation of this sub-genre
What is a dystopia?
a group of words in a fixed order that has a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own
What is an idiom?
The longest sitting British regent.
Who is Elizabeth II?
The date of the US independence?
What is the fourth of July, 1776?
A piece of text (broadly speaking) used to convey a message to a very broad audience. The message is often simple and can be used to prompt outrage among their audience.
What is a post on social media?
A type of poetry that consist of 14 lines of verse that is typically attributed to Shakespeare.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
Words that portray their own sound, like Bang, splash, boing, boom, clang, crack, crackle, tick-tock, bam, etc.
What is onomatopoeia?
The name of a country which gained independence in 1947.
What is India?
Who or what decides what you need to learn about the US?
What is the Ministry of Education (and magic)?