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Elements of Fiction
Types of Fiction
Types of Nonfiction
Elements of Nonfiction
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is an example of this type of writing.
What is fiction?
100
These are the made-up people or animals in the story.
What are characters?
100
This is a long work of fiction.
What is a novel?
100
This tells the story of someone's life.
What is a biography?
100
True or false: Nonfiction is shelved in the library by author's last name.
What is false? These writings are shelved by call number.
200
The Betty Crocker Cookbook is an example of this kind of writing.
What nonfiction?
200
This is the series of events.
What is the plot?
200
These fiction stories have talking animals as their main characters. Hint: Think about the Tortoise and the Hare.
What are fables?
200
This tells the story of the author's life.
What is an autobiography?
200
The author's "point of view" is also called this.
What is author's perspective?
300
A book containing facts and information about sharks is this type of writing.
What is nonfiction?
300
This is the big problem in the story.
What is conflict?
300
These are brief works of fiction with characters, setting, and a plot, but it is meant to be read in one sitting.
What is a short story?
300
These are written forms of communication from one person to another.
What are letters?
300
Nonfiction writings These can be remembered by the acronym PIEE, which stands for persuade, inform, entertain, and explain.
What is "writer's purpose?"
400
The Twilight series is this type of writing.
What is fiction?
400
This is the time and place of the story.
What is setting?
400
This type of fiction deals with gods and heros in ancient times and explains something -- usually a natural phenomenon.
What are myths?
400
These writings includes atlases and encyclopedias.
What are reference materials?
400
This reflects the writer's attitude toward a subject.
What is "tone?"
500
The instruction manuel that came with your new Easy-Bake Oven would be considered this kind of writing.
What is nonfiction?
500
This is the big idea or the lesson of the story.
What is theme?
500
We read this short story in class. It was set in an ancient city in the Roman empire that was destroyed by a volcano.
What is "The Dog of Pompeii?"
500
These are works that are delivered orally to an audience.
What are speeches?
500
We read the nonfiction story "Volcano" in class. It was about the eruption of this famous volcano in the United States.
What Mount St. Helens?