Non-Fiction Notes

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Biography

• Written Life or the story of a persons life.
• Bio-Latin for life
• Graph-Latin for writing

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Autobiography

• the written story of the authors own life .

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Diary

• a sort of autobiography recorded one day or week
  at a time as it is lived.

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Objectivity

• unbiased account that is factually accurate and
  detailed.

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Subjectivity

• writing that is biased and has feeling.

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Imagery

• language that appeals to one of our five senses
  sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch.

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Idiom

• An expression that has a figurative meaning apart
  from the meanings of its individual words.
• raining cats and dogs kick the bucket

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The Writers Purpose
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Exposition

• Writing that informs or explains something.

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Narration

• Writing that tells about a sequence of events as
  a story.

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Description

• Writing that creates mood using images to
  describe something in a way that appeals to our
  senses.

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Persuasion

• Writing that tries to make the reader think or
  feel a certain way about something.

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Persuasive Techniques
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Deductive Reasoning

• Starts with an opinion and supports it with
  examples
• I think ___ because ______ and ______.

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Inductive Reasoning

• starts with details and follows with a logical
  opinion
• _______ and _____, so I think _______.

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Fallacies

• errors in logical thinking

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Fallacies - Attacking

• Attacking a persons character or judgment

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Fallacies - Circular Reasoning

• Simply restates an opinion
• She is a nice person because she is nice.

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Fallacies - False Cause and Effect

• Event 2 happened after event 1, so event 1 caused
  event 2.
• I tripped after she sneezed, so it is her fault
  I tripped.

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Fallacies - Hasty Generalization

• Generalizing about everything from one or two
  cases
• Stacy and John failed the test, so everyone
  failed it.

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Emotional Appeals

• appeals that try to sway a persons emotions one
  way over another

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Emotional Appeals Bandwagon

• Suggesting that someone jump on and follow a
  person or an idea

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Emotional Appeals Testimonial

• An influential person endorsing a product or
  person

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EthosPathosLogos
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Ethos

• the ethical appeal, means to convince an audience
  of the authors credibility or character

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Pathos

• the emotional appeal, means to persuade an
  audience by appealing to their emotions.

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Logos

• the appeal to logic, means to convince an
  audience by use of logic or reason.