Nonfiction
This is writing that is not made up.
What is nonfiction writing?
Memoirs are written with these pronouns.
What are first person pronouns?
The reason for the author's writing.
What is author's purpose?
The first step of the writing process.
What is brainstorming?
The statement that summarizes the main point of an essay.
What is a thesis statement?
The type of writing in the nonfiction genre where tells a story about a memory.
What is memoir?
The structure that memoirs are written in?
What is narrative structure?
These must be specific and detailed in order to support a main idea.
What is evidence?
The first copy of the essay written in paragraph form.
What is a rough draft?
The part of expository essays where the writer uses CHELPS or anecdotes, statistics, and expert opinions.
What is evidence?
The nonfiction writing where people tell true stories about themselves.
What is an autobiography?
The message from the story.
What is a theme?
Examples of this are Comparison and Contrast, Cause and Effect, and Chronological Order.
What are patterns of organization?
The step in the writing cycle where the writer moves around ideas, removes unnecessary sentences, and adds helpful information.
The lead in or attention-getter of an essay.
What is a hook?
The purpose is to inform.
What is the purpose of expository writing?
The feature of memoir that it's name suggests it has.
What is a memory?
The important information in the paragraph.
What is a main idea?
The stage in the writing process where the writer fixes capitalization, spelling, and grammar errors.
What is editing?
The first sentence in a body paragraph that states the topic for the whole paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
Writing that is factual and not made up.
What is nonfiction writing?
The genre memoir fits in.
What is literary nonfiction?
The details about the main idea.
The final step in the writing process where the author makes his/her writing public.
What is publishing?
To inform the reader.
What is the purpose of expository writing?