Nonfiction Academic Terms

Match the following

• autobiography

• a type of autobiography that focuses on one incident or period in a person' s life

• personal essay

• a story that tells about something in your life

• biography

• the story of a person's life, told by that person

• memoir

• explores a topic related to the life or interests of the writer

• personal narrative

• the story of a person's life, told by someone other than that person

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• speech

• a short nonfiction work that presents a single main idea, or thesis, about a particular topic

• essay

• a public address that was originally delivered orally

• informational text

• a form of nonfiction that aims to explain information

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• bias

• an attitude or a way of looking at something

• Point of View

• a prejudice or to favor something or someone over another thing, idea, or person based on your feelings

• Perspective

• through whose viewpoint/lens are we seeing the text (1st, 2nd, or 3rd)

• author's purpose

• the reason for writing a text

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• parallelism

• the literal dictionary definition of a word

• connotation

• the way a word makes you feel or the emotion it causes

• rhetorical question

• a question that is not asked in order to receive an answer from the audience or reader; it’s just posed to make a point.

• denotation

• when phrases in a sentence have similar or the same grammatical structure

Label each nonfiction text structure.

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b

c

d

Caption

Photograph

title

bold print

Label each nonfiction text structure.

e

c

d

b

a

labels

glossary

chart

diagram

heading