Nonfiction Terms
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- Q1a short story about an interesting time or eventanecdotebiographymemoirautobiography30s
- Q2the story of someone's life, written by that personmemoirautobiographybiographyanecdote30s
- Q3the story of someone's life written by someone elseanecdotebiographymemoirautobiography30s
- Q4a specific type of autobiography that only covers a part of someone's lifebiographymemoiranecdoteautobiography30s
- Q5author's reason for creating a writing: to teach, entertain, persuade, give infoauthor's wishauthor's purposeauthor's choiceauthor's attitude30s
- Q6the way the author feels toward the subjectauthor's fearauthor's purposeauthor's choiceauthor's attitude30s
- Q7a statement that reflects a person's beliefs or thoughtsfactopiniondenotationconnotation30s
- Q8the idea or feeling that goes with a word, not the meaning of the wordopinionconnotationdenotationfact30s
- Q9the dictionary definition of a word, what it meansopinionconnotationdenotationfact30s
- Q10a statement that can be proven true or falsedenotationopinionfactconnotation30s
- Q11language that means exactly what it saysfactfigurative languageopinionliteral language30s
- Q12language that is not really true, used to create original descriptionsopinionfigurative languagefactliteral language30s
- Q13a statement of what my happen next in a writingthemepredictionpoint of viewobjective30s
- Q14what a piece of writing is mostly aboutobjectivesubjectivemain ideapoint of view30s
- Q15writing that tells about real people, places, things, and eventsfictionpoetrynonfictiondrama30s