Author's Purpose and Author's Point of View EOG Review

To understand and identify the different purposes of text. You must distinguish between ________ _________.

Now that you have distinguished the difference in non-fiction and fiction, you must understand how the ____________ affects the text.

The author’s purpose is the main reason that he/she has for writing the selection

• True

• False

What is the reason of an author's purpose?

When an author writes to entertain, persuade, or inform, he/she will have his/her___________

(Finish the sentence) Author’s purpose and point of view

For some issues, you will be able to tell if the author is ___________ something.

Can a selection have two purposes?

Can a selection have two purposes? If so, what are the two?

•If the author’s purpose is to inform, you will learn something from the selection.

•Information pieces sometime use one or more of the following:

• –Facts

  –Details/Instructions

• –Places

• –Facts

  –Details/Instructions

  –Places

  –Events

  People