Fiction and Non-Fiction
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This document provides information about the key differences between fiction and nonfiction texts. It discusses that fiction includes made-up events, characters, and settings, with the narrator often being a character, while the purpose is to entertain. Nonfiction includes real events, people, and places, with the author always being the narrator or speaker, and the purpose is to explain, inform, persuade or describe, as well as potentially entertain. Examples of fiction and nonfiction text types are also provided.
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Fiction and Non-Fiction
- 2. 1. assumption 5. credible 2. circumstance 6. perspective 3. context 7. speculate 4. convince 8. verify
- 3. belief perceive manipulate evidence truth skeptics distort
- 4. Fiction Purpose •Narrates (tells a story) •Entertains Subjects •Made-up events •Made-up characters •Made-up settings Narrator/Speaker •A character may tell the story
- 5. Nonfiction Purpose • Explains • Informs • Persuades • Describes • Entertains Subjects • ideas • Fact-based events • Real people • Real places Narrator/Speaker • Author is always the speaker
- 6. Fiction Purpose Purpose May •Narrates (tells a story) explain, inform, •Explains persuade, or •Informs •Entertains describe •Persuades •Describes Subjects •Entertains May tell a story •Made-up events Subjects May be based on •Made-up characters real •ideas •Made-up settings events, people, and •Fact-based events places •Real people Narrator/Speaker •Real places May include •A character may tell made-up Narrator/Speaker the story examples •Author is always the speaker
- 9. underlying meaning of the story, a universal truth, a significant statement the story is making about society, human nature, or the human condition.
- 10. Themes can be found everywhere: literature, stories, art, movies etc… The theme of a fable is its moral. The theme of a parable is its teaching. The theme of a piece of literature is its view about life and how people behave.
- 11. Theme = idea The theme of a literary work is its underlying central idea or the generalization it communicates about life.
- 12. At times the author's theme may not confirm or agree with your own beliefs.
- 13. Be aware that the theme never completely explains the story. It is simply one of the elements that make up the whole. Some short stories have secondary themes as well.
- 14. Nonfiction: Main Idea The central message, insight, or opinion in a work of nonfiction. The supporting details are the pieces of evidence a writer uses to prove his or her point. Reread to help you identify the main idea and supporting details in a work. As you read, follow these steps: • Note key details to decide what the main idea might be. • If a detail does not seem to support that main idea, reread the passage to be sure that you have not misinterpreted it. • If necessary, revise your assumptions about the main idea.
- 15. Detail Detail Detail Main Detail Idea Detail Detail Detail
- 16. Cluster Diagram Record details and main ideas on a cluster diagram like this one. Detail Detail Main Idea Detail Detail Detail Copyright © 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc, or its affiliates. All rights reserved.