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Types of Non Fiction
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Language that appeals to the five senses.
What is Sensory Detail?
100
A piece of writing that is written by someone about their own life.
What is an autobiography?
100
Events in a story in date order.
What is chronological or sequential?
100
To describe the main idea and important details of a passage using your own words
What is summarize?
100
The author's use of language that appeals to the five senses and creates imagery.
What is sensory detail?
200
Using the words in a sentence to understand the meaning of an unknown word.
What are context clues?
200
A piece of writing that explains information or ideas.
What is expository?
200
Pattern where a main reason is listed and then supported by details.
What is main idea and supporting details?
200
To interest and amuse; to hold someone's attention.
What is entertain?
200
When an author refers back to a memory or something that has already taken place in the story.
What is Flashback?
300
The resource book you use to look up the meaning of a word.
What is a dictionary?
300
A true account of a person's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
300
The order in which you would do things, like in a recipe.
What is sequence or how to?
300
To examine and note the similarities or differences of
What is compare?
300
Naming an action by imitating the sound that goes with it, sound effect words.
What is Onomatopoeia?
400
The point of view represented by a narrator that is NOT in the story.
What is 3rd person point of view?
400
What type of non-fiction was the novel "The Circuit"
What is a memoir?
400
Writing where a problem is stated and analyzed and then possible solutions are listed.
What is problem/solution?
400
To cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action.
What is persuade?
400
When an author hints at something that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
What you do when you draw a conclusion based on what you have read and what you already know.
What is an inference?
500
A short true story told in 1st person POV that relects the writer's experiences, feelings, and personality.
What is a personal narrative?
500
A piece of writing that identifies the similarities and differences of 2 or more subjects.
What is compare and contrast?
500
To break down into components or essential features; to look at something carefully and examine the parts.
What is analyze?
500
Exaggerating, often in a humorous way; an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?