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Summary
Genre of Nonfiction
Strategies to read Nonfiction
Literary Elements
Vocabulary
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A shortened account about the central ideas of a text that should be in your own words.
What is a summary?
100
A true account about real people, real events, and real places
What is nonfiction?
100
When a reader underlines and highlights important information in a nonfiction text to help them remember the information.
What is annotation?
100
The character who shows multiple character traits and the audience roots for throughout a text
What is a protagonist?
100
The complete lack of government
What is an anarchy?
200
The most important idea in nonfiction that is stated in a summary.
What is the main idea?
200
To be informed, to learn about others, to reflect
What are the reasons we read nonfiction?
200
To inform, persuade, and entertain
Why does an author write nonfiction?
200
Setting, conflict, protagonist, antagonist
What is an exposition?
200
A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region
What is dialect?
300
Arguments or information that is used to support the main idea
What are key details?
300
A type of nonfiction that informs a reader over a specific topic using sandwich style writing.
What is an expository essay?
300
The mode a biography and autobiography are written in
What is chronological order?
300
The part of the plot where the main conflict is solved.
What is resolution?
300
Able to move quickly and easily or to be nimble
What is agile?
400
Things that should not be included in a written summary.
What are personal bias and opinions?
400
The main reason we read nonfiction
What is knowledge?
400
The mode that textbooks use to teach new ideas and explain them
What is classification and definition?
400
How the author describes a character in a literary work
What is characterization?
400
To make easier
What is facilitate?
500
To provide someone who has not read the text an accurate account of what it was about.
Why do we write a summary?
500
How the author chooses to organize and write about a topic
What is mode?
500
Newspaper, magazine, narrative essay, and persuasive essay
What are types of nonfiction?
500
Something that is created from following the protagonist's conflict throughout the plot.
What is a theme?
500
An abnormal fear of narrow, enclosed spaces
What is claustrophobia?