Unit 3: Introduction to Nonfiction

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  1. fiction
    a literary work based on the imagination
    In the Introduction to Fiction (page 4), you learned that fiction includes any work of prose (writing that is not poetry or drama) that describes an invented or imaginary story.
  2. nonfiction
    prose writing that is not formed by the imagination
    Nonfiction is writing about real people, places, things, and events.
  3. autobiography
    a book or account of your own life
    An autobiography is told from the first-person point of view and is the story of a person’s life written by that person.
  4. memoir
    an account of the author's personal experiences
    A more focused type of autobiography is the memoir, which usually deals with a specific period of a person’s life.
  5. biography
    an account of the series of events making up a person's life
    A biography is the story of a person’s life told by another person.
  6. essay
    an analytic or interpretive literary composition
    An essay is a short nonfiction work that makes a point about a single subject.
  7. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
    The point that the writer is making is the thesis.
  8. personal
    concerning an individual or his or her private life
    A personal essay is a short nonfiction work on a single topic related to the life of the writer.
  9. argumentative
    given to or characterized by a tendency to dispute
    In an argumentative essay, the writer’s goal is to persuade the reader to accept a point of view.
  10. parallelism
    similarity by virtue of corresponding
    Parallelism is the use of the same grammatical constructions to express ideas of equal importance.
  11. rhetorical question
    an inquiry that is not supposed to be answered
    A rhetorical question is a question asked by an author to reinforce an idea.
  12. critique
    appraise or judge in an analytical way
    Another type of argumentative writing is a critique, which is detailed examination or review of a work, such as a book report or a movie review.
Created on Wed Feb 17 15:56:04 EST 2021 (updated Wed Feb 24 09:03:32 EST 2021)

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