Literary Nonfiction Vocabulary

2. stories and plays about real people and events and may be based on biographies, autobiographies, and diaries
4. the series of events in a story
8. when a reader makes a logical guess based on new clues and what you already know
12. the author's reason for writing; can be to inform, entertain, or persuade
13. the writer's message about life within the story
14. a form of nonfiction whose purpose is to express the writer's thoughts and feelings about one subject
15. when you briefly restate in your own words the main ideas and important details of something you've read

1. events put in the order in which they happened
3. a nonfiction film or television production that tells about important people, historic places, or major events
5. a form of autobiographical writing in which the writer records thoughts, experiences, or feelings
6. short account of events
7. the standpoint from which the story is told; can be first-person, second-person, or third-person
9. a story of a person's life told by someone else and written from third-person point of view
10. a person's life told by that person and is written in first-person point of view
11. a story about only a certain part of a person's life told by that person and is written in first-person point of view