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Types of Nonfiction
Types of Nonfiction
The Rhetorical Triangle
Persuasion and Propaganda
Persuasion and Propaganda
100
This type of nonfiction is a full account of one's own life.
What is AUTOBIOGRAPHY?
100
This type of nonfiction includes varieties such as persuasive, expository, and personal.
What is ESSAY?
100
These are the three parts of the rhetorical triangle.
What are PURPOSE, AUDIENCE, SPEAKER/WRITER?
100
This term created by Aristotle refers to when someone uses credibility or character to persuade.
What is ETHOS?
100
This technique will show many people using a product, implying that “everyone is doing it.”
What is BANDWAGON?
200
This type of nonfiction is used to look up information, perhaps in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or textbook.
What is REFERENCE?
200
This type of nonfiction is a full account of one's life written by another person.
What is BIOGRAPHY?
200
The attitude the author takes toward a subject is known as this literary term.
What is TONE?
200
This term created by Aristotle refers to when someone uses reasoning to persuade.
What is LOGOS?
200
This technique links the writer or product with something well-respected and revered.
What is TRANSFER?
300
This type of nonfiction contains dialogue or a summary of dialogue.
What is INTERVIEW?
300
This type of nonfiction is when a person writes about a specific memorable occasion in his or her life.
What is MEMOIR?
300
This term refers to the dictionary definition of a word.
What is DENOTATION?
300
This term created by Aristotle refers to when someone uses emotional appeals to persuade.
What is PATHOS?
300
This technique uses a public figure or celebrity to endorse or promote a product.
What is TESTIMONIAL?
400
This type of nonfiction is a true story, but entertains like fiction.
What is NARRATIVE?
400
This type of nonfiction provides someone's opinions about a topic.
What is REVIEW?
400
This term refers to the feeling or shade of emotion attached to a word.
What is CONNOTATION?
400
This persuasive technique plays on deep-seated worries and predicts a disastrous outcome if one does not follow a specific action.
What is FEAR?
400
This technique uses virtue words to link a person or idea to a positive symbol.
What is GLITTERING GENERALITIES?
500
This type of nonfiction would most likely use the pronoun "I."
What is AUTOBIOGRAPHY and/or MEMOIR?
500
This type of nonfiction might be about a new restaurant, movie, or a new album that was recently released.
What is REVIEW?
500
This literary term means "word choice" and helps determine tone.
What is DICTION?
500
This technique links a person or idea to a negative symbol to make the readers or viewers reject that person or idea.
What is NAME-CALLING?
500
This technique is an attempt to convince the audience that a prominent person and his or her ideas are “of the people.”
What is PLAIN FOLKS?