Nonfiction Literary Terms

the person or group for whom the author is writing

• autobiography

• audience

• biography

• essay

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

the story of a person's life, written by that person

• autobiography

• biography

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

the story of a person's life, written by that person

• biography

• autobiography

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

short nonfiction work that presents a single main idea about a particular topic

• voice

• memoir

• essay

• chart

a work written to educate the reader on a topic, issue, or event

• web page

• visual media

• argumentative essay

• informative essay

a more focused type of autobiography, deals with a specific period of a person's life

• memoir

• POV (point of view)

• thesis

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

a work written about real things

• fiction

• nonfiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

short nonfiction work on a single topic related to the life of a writer

• informative essay

• argumentative essay

• thesis

• personal essay

writer's goal is to persuade the reader to accept a point of view

• personal essay

• argumentative essay

• diagram

• chart

vantage point from which the story is told

• theme

• thesis

• point of view

• purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3