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Modes of Writing
Speeches
Genres of Nonfiction
Informational Texts
Hodge Podge
100
A writer's reason for writing.
What is purpose?
100
A public address that was originally delivered orally.
What is a speech?
100
Prose writing about real events
What is nonfiction?
100
A form of nonfiction that aims at conveying or explaining information.
What is informational text?
100
When a story is told on the order in which the events unfold
What is chronological order?
200
To convince people to accept a position and respond in some way
What is persuasive?
200
Who is the author of the "I Have a Dream" speech?
What is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
A story about a person's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
200
An informational piece of writing about a particular topic, issue, event, or series of events
What is an article?
200
A conversation between two or more characters
What is a dialogue?
300
To express thoughts or ideas, or to tell a story
What is narrative?
300
A speech that has been written out and memorized word for word
What is memorized?
300
A story of a person's life written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
300
A magazine or newspaper article the represents the opinions of the editors or publishers
What is an editorial?
300
A word's dictionary meaning.
What is denotation?
400
To portray a person, place, object, or event
What is descriptive?
400
A speech given without advance preparation
What is impromptu?
400
A short work that presents a single main idea, or thesis, about a particular topic.
What is an essay?
400
The type of informational writing that explains a procedure or strategy.
What is how-to writing?
400
The emotional meaning of a word.
What is connotation?
500
To inform
What is expository?
500
A speech in which the speaker refers to notes
What is extemporaneous?
500
A type or category of literary composition.
What is a genre?
500
Give an example of a digital form of informational text
What is a web page, electronic media, visual media, or advertisement
500
A short account of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident.
What is an anecdote?