Nonfiction Pretest

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What is nonfiction?

• A product of the imagination, rather than actual history or fact.
• Writing about real people, places, and events
• A writer's account of his or her own personal life
• The story of someone's life written by someone else

What is an inference?

• a fact or statement that can be proven true or false
• a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
• a statement that reflects a person's beliefs
• the dictionary definition of a word

What is author's purpose?

• the reason or intent a writer has for writing something
• why an author became a writer in the first place
• persuade, inform, entertain

What are text features?

• the different parts of a nonfiction or fiction text other than the main story itself. They help the reader understand the story.
• the way authors organize information in text

What are text structures?

• the different parts of a nonfiction or fiction text other than the main story itself. They help the reader understand the story.
• the way authors organize information in text