Literary Nonfiction Terms

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Nonfiction

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Writing that is based on facts, real events, or real people.

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Biography

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The story of a real person's life written by another person; usually presents events and information in chronological order.

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Narrator

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The person telling the story.

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Point-of-view

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The narrator's position on the events in the story. (author's point of view, a character's point of view)

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First person

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The person in the story is talking about himself or herself and uses words like I, me, my, we, us, and our.

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Third person

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The person telling a story with which he is not involved. He is an outside observer to the action. Third person uses words like he, him, his, she, her, they, them, or their.