Non-Fiction test

Biography

an account of a person’s life written by another

Autobiography

an account of a person’s life written by the writer

Objective

 No feelings of writer revealed; just facts; used in reports and biographies

Subjective

writer freely reveals feelings used in essays and autobiographies

Narration

To relate a series of events. Answers: What happened?

Chronology

the arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence.

description

To create a mood or appeal to the senses Answers: What does it look, sound, taste, feel, smell like?

Persuasion

To persuade readers to believe or do something. Uses a combination of above three methods

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”  (p. 490 text)

   Plot - what happens in the story?

Maya and Bailey are sent off at a young age to their grandmother. Their grandmother owned a store, and people would come before and after work. They would brag about how much cotton they would pick, but at the end of the day, no one would ever pick enough. Uncle Willie- who has a lameness that the children are embarrassed of, tries to act normal in front of a couple, because he is tired of his lameness. 

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”- Characters- who are MaMa and Bailey

MaMa (grandmother), Bailey (Maya’s Older Brother) 

Tone of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”

warm and respectful

Louisa May Alcott- Biographies- what causes did she support?

She supported women's suffrage and abolition and temperance.

What events in Alcott's life appeared in her book (and movie)

success in book, both Joe and Louisa were writers

Roald Dahl- "Boy" (p. 477 in text.) Plot- what happens in the story.

Boys love candy stores and are frustrated with Mrs. Prachett so they put a dead mouse in the jar of gobstoppers as a prank.

How is Mrs. Prachett characterized? 

 she is mean and has her hands are disgusting that are black with dirt and grime

How is Mr. Coombes characterized?

He is a giant man with a face like a ham and a mass of rusty colored hair that sprouted in a tangle all over his head.

definition of malignant

very infectious, evil intentioned

Molly Brown: The Unsinkable Molly Brown: Author:

Fowler

“The Golden Rube” Author:

Stephens

major incidents in her life

her marriage to Leadville Johnny, the stove incident, the Titanic incident

Cinderella's Step-Sisters - (Author)

 Toni Morrison

Cinderella's Step-Sisters format of the selection

Non fiction speech

what does Morrison find disturbing about the fairy tale.

She finds it disturbing because “it is essentially the story of a household—a world, if you please—of women gathered together and held together in order to abuse another woman” 

what does Morrison tell her audience not to do

To participate in the oppression of your sisters.

Angelou uses contrasting imagery for the morning and evening to underscore her

description of the cotton pickers lives. She does this by

contrasting the joking and bragging inn the soft morning light to the disappoint

The quotation “they threw their orders around the Store like lashes from a cat-o’-nine-tails” is an example of..

a simile

 In order to write good nonfiction, a writer must

want to persuade the reader to accept his or her view

Molly Brown’s personality could best be described as..

eccentric

Which of the following facts appeared in the autobiography of Maya Angelou, but not in the biography?

The cotton pickers who came to her grandmother's store were very poor.

Which of the following appeared in the biography, but not in the autobiography we read?

She was raped by her mother’s boyfriend

Louisa May Alcott was a supporter of the suffrage movement. This means she thought..

women should vote