1. Styles, Terms, and Selections
Nonfiction
Styles, Terms, and Selections

2. Styles There are 4 different kinds of Nonfiction writing: Descriptive
Persuasive
Expository
Narrative

3. Descriptive
Type of writing intended to create a mood or an emotion or to re-create a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an experience.

4. Description, cont.
Fiction
It uses images that appeal to the senses, helping us imagine how a subject looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels. It is used in:
Nonfiction
Drama
Poetry

5. Persuasive
REASON
Type of writing designed to change the way a reader or listener thinks or acts. It uses language that appeals to:
Emotion
Both

6. Persuasion, Cont. Persuasive writing can be found in: Speeches
Articles
Advertisements
Newspaper Editorials
Essays

7. Expository
Ex: A magazine article on nutrition.
Type of writing that explains, gives information, or clarifies an idea. Exposition is generally objective and formal in tone

8. Narrative
Auto
Biographies
Diary
Type of writing that tells about a series of related events. Narration can be:
Nonfiction Essays
Drama
Fiction
Poetry
Long
Memory
Short

9. Literary Elements in Nonfiction
There are several important literary elements you need to know when reading nonfiction.

10. Autobiography Auto—”self” Bio—”life” Graph—”writing”
Biography is the story of your life, written by SOME ONE ELSE!
Autobiography
Auto—”self”
Bio—”life”
Graph—”writing”
Autobiography is the story of your life, written by YOU
What’s the difference between biography and AUTObiography?

11. Rambling Autobiography
An autobiography that jumps from topic to topic without a specific point or purpose
Tells a story by using a lot of random details, but no substance
Ex: An instant message conversation; a friend telling a story with no point…you find yourself tuning them out

12. Irony: 3 Kinds Situational Dramatic
Expect something to happen, but the opposite does
Dramatic
Audience knows something the character doesn’t

13. Irony, cont. Verbal When you say something, but mean the opposite
Sarcasm is one step further—being mean with verbal irony

14. Selections: Essays, Articles
Memorial Day
No Ordinary Joe
Sportsmanship

15. Selections, Cont.
“Typhoid Fever” an excerpt from Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Education of Frank McCourt

16. Cont…
“Now you take ‘Bambi’ or ‘Snow White’--That’s Scary!” by Stephen King