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The Elements of Nonfiction
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English
10th Grade
01/17/2012

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Role and responsibility
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make language work beautifuly, allow the reader into the scene and feel welcome
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what does it mean to connect with text?
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to understand and get the right feeling recall experiences from your own life
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what does it mean to evaluate a text?
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to discuss and use the text to come up with a solution also to judge a text
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what does it mean to interpret a text?
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we figure out the messages the writer is sending us
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what does it mean to extend or challenge a text?
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to search for more information or and argue with that the writer said
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tone
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writers attitude toward the audience the subject or a character
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autobiography
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someones personal account of his or her own life
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biography
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stories of peoples lives that are written by other people
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shock of recognition
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as we find something of ourselves in a strangers story
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pro's
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feeling honestly true
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con's
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hard to write at times, have to really tell the truth
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accuracy
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will make the story complete
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significance
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shows emphasis
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anecdotes
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brief stories about their subjects that make some point told in capsule form
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chronological order
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following a time sequence
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comic relief
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eases emotional tension
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credibility
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believability
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irony
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contrast of discrepancy between expectation and reality
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dramatic irony
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occurs when the reader or audience knows something that the character doesn't
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situational irony
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what acctualey happens is the opposite of what is expected or approiate
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objective writing
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containing facts and gives no clue to the writers thought and feelings
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subjective writing
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revealing their own thoughts judgements and feelings
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narration
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type of writing that tells about a series of related events
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essay
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short piece of nonfiction that examines a single subject from a limited point of view
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essay- french orgin
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to try or attempt
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personal informal essay
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subjective revealing writers personality and feelings
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formal essay
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series objective and impersonal in tone
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fact
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something that can be proved true
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opinion
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belief that cant be proved
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exposition
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type of writing that explains gives information or clarifies data
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sensory images/details
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is images you should pick up on and around the pictures
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cause
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why it happened
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effect
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since it happened what has changed
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satire
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type of writing the ridicules human weakness, vice or folly in order to bring about social reform
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exaggeration
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overstanding something to make it look absurd or worse then it is
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verbal irony
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contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality
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purpose
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to entertain to share to inform
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point of view
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vantage point form which a writer tells a story
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connotation
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heavy with emotional associations
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denotation
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dictionary definition
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main idea
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opinion, a message and insight of lesson that is the focus of a piece of writing
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motivation
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importance
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memoir
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like an autobiography, a narrative that reveals expierences within the authors lifetime toward a particular section of ones life
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