Nonfiction Unit

What is Nonfiction?

• The message of the story stated in one or two complete sentences.

• prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.

• When a character thinks back to an event that occurred before the story began. Sometimes flashbacks are written as separate “interrupter” sections within a novel or short story.

• in which the speaker means something very different from what he or she is saying.

What is literary Nonfiction

• a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.

• A nonfiction prose

• a type of prose that uses literary techniques usually associated with fiction to report on actual persons, places, events

• Fiction Prose

What is Informative Nonfiction?

• presents facts to inform a reader or explain a concept.

• To Inform

• Bias

• Facts

Autobiography

• A fiction story made of real characters

• Very similar to a memoir

• An account of a person's life written by another person

• an account of a person's life written by that person.

Biography

• A bunch of facts

• An account of one's life written by that person

• an account of someone's life written by someone else.

• Bias information on a person

What is Primary source?

• encyclopedias,

• scholarly or popular books

• first-hand or contemporary account of an event or topic.

• journal articles

What is a Secondary Source?

• Diaries.

• is one that was created later by someone that did not experience firsthand or participate in the events in which the author is writing about.

• Journals.

• Correspondence / letters.

What is a Memoir

• a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources.

• The Biography of Malcolm X

• factual and historical account of one's entire life from beginning to end.

• The Biography of Carol Baskin

Anecdote

• figure of speech

• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

• the practice of making allusions, especially as an artistic device.

Chronological order

• the arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method

• an authoritative command, direction, or instruction.

• the order in which the events occurred, from first to last.

• request (something) to be made, supplied, or served.