Nonfiction Features
This short phrase is often at the top of a nonfiction text and hints at what the text is about.
What is the title?
In any text, but especially fiction texts, this device is used to help readers see what the author is describing.
What is imagery?
The website endings for government or education websites.
What are .gov and .edu?
These three components make up a complete simple sentence.
What are subject, verb, and complete thought?
This is the feeling the author intended for a text to have.
What is tone?
This list often appears at the start of a nonfiction text, but after the title page.
What is a table of contents?
Similar to tone and mood, this device is used to show the attitudes and intentions of an author or character.
What is voice?
Citations, references, and data are all parts of this persuasive device.
What is ethos?
This common writing mistake is made when a writer doesn't add a subject, verb, or complete thought.
What is a fragment?
This is the feeling a reader gets from a text.
What is mood?
This list often appears at the end of a nonfiction text and provides the meanings for unknown or difficult words.
What is a glossary?
This layout of words is intended to make any given sentence or paragraph as effective as possible.
What is syntax (sentence structure)?
Books, articles, academic journals, research papers, and official websites.
What are reliable sources?
This type of run-on is created when punctuation is not present in a sentence that contains two complete clauses.
What is a fused sentence?
Words like angry, red-hot, upset, cynical, or harsh that are used to portray a specific tone.
What are negative words?
These add-ins are often used to illustrate the point an author is making if words aren't quite enough.
What are charts, graphs, images, icons, or diagrams?
This device is used to reference or point to another text, another story, or a historical event.
What is allusion?
The website endings for sites that could be bought or run by anyone, even unreliable people.
What are .com and .net?
This type of run-on is created when two complete clauses are joined with only a comma.
What is a comma splice?
Words like excited, vibrant, delightful, creative, or beautiful that are used to portray a specific tone.
What are positive words?
The order in which a text is presented to maximize the message of the author.
What is text structure?
The use of similar syntax, diction, and meanings in sentences next to each other to emphasize a point.
What is parallelism?
Sometimes these networks or publications present as reliable, but are actually meant to entertain their audience.
What are news sources?
Starting a sentence with one of these will almost always create a fragment.
What are verbs (infinitives and ing)?
The literary device that is created by tone and mood.
What is atmosphere?