Fiction and Nonfiction

What is fiction?

• A true account of a historical event

• When someone writes a story about themselves

• Writing inspired by fact or based entirely on the fantastic

• I don't know, I never pay attention

What are characters?

• Real people in real life

• People or animals in a story that come from a writer's imagination, they can be inspired by real people

• People written about in autobiographies, they are always real and they lived through real events

• Fake people made up by other fake people only

What is a plot?

• Real life events

• I don't know, I don't really pay attention

• Fake news

• The events in a story made up by the author

What is a setting?

• When and where the story takes place

• Who is in the story

• The events that happen in the story

• The big idea of the story

What is a narrator?

• The author only

• The main character only

• The person who is telling the story

• The author and the main character

What is point of view?

• The location of the story

• The people or animals in the story

• The events in the story

• The perspective of the narrator

Select every type of fiction (more than one answer)

• Biography

• Short story

• Autobiography

• Novellas

• Letters

What is nonfiction?

• Writing that is true and contains facts and ideas only

• Writing that authors make up

• Half made up, half real

• I don't know

When do we read nonfiction

• Only once in a while

• Never

• Everyday, all day

• Sundays

Select every type of nonfiction (more than one answer)

• Biographies

• Tweets

• Novels

• Autobiographies

• Nutrition labels