Author's Purpose

the author wants to amuse you or for you to enjoy the writing

• Entertain

• Inform

• Persuade

The author wants to give you information.

• Entertain

• Persuade

• Inform

the author wants you to do, buy, or believe something 

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

Advertisements are created to:

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

In a non-fiction book, the author's purpose is to:

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Biographies and autobiographies were written to:

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

An author's purpose is...

• the reason an author writes

• the way the author sees and interprets the world

• author's sense of humor

• author's way of life. 

When an author's purpose is to inform, the text will include mostly ________.

• opinions

• funny or imaginary details

• characters and a setting

• facts (information that is true)

Words like "best," "should," "think," "believe" and "feel" are clues that an author is most likely trying to ________.

• entertain you

• inform you

• persuade you

The new Diary of A Wimpy Kid book

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain