Nonfiction Review

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Nonfiction Review

• Directions
• You may work with 1 other person. Write your
  answers on your slate. You may NOT use your
  notes!

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• What are the 4 types of nonfiction?

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• This type of nonfiction uses colorful
  words/phrases to create an image.
• What type of nonfiction is it?

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• This type of nonfiction gives an explanation or
  tells how to do something. What type of
  nonfiction is it?

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• This type of nonfiction is a personal story (like
  a memoir). What type of nonfiction is it?

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• This type of nonfiction is used to convince
  readers to take action or think in a certain way.
  What type of nonfiction is it?

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• This appeal uses suffering, threats, sadness, or
  humor to convince the reader.

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• This appeal repeats words or phrases to convince
  the reader.

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• This appeal uses facts, examples, stats, and
  numbers to convince the reader.

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• This appeal speaks of being legal, fair,or right
  to convince the reader.

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Identify the types of nonfiction from the
excerpts that follow!
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• Dont smoke!
• Smoking related-diseases kill one in 10 adults
  globally, or cause four million deaths. By 2030,
  if current trends continue, smoking will kill one
  in six people.
• Every eight seconds, someone dies from tobacco
  use.

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• The humidity was a wet sweater. The sickly-sweet
  odor of plumeria flowers filled the air. Someone
  had just finished painting the sunset brilliant
  shades of crimson and violet. The palm trees
  shushed the scene, the wind shuffling their
  leaves. The air was salty from the surrounding
  ocean.

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• If you have premarital sex, youre a slut.
• Your reputation will be ruined!
• Your friends will ditch you because they are
  ashamed of you!
• Dont have premarital sex!

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• Clouds are formed when air containing water vapor
  is cooled below a critical temperature called the
  dew point and the resulting moisture condenses
  into droplets on microscopic dust particles in
  the atmosphere. The air is normally cooled by
  expansion during its upward movement. Upward flow
  of air in the atmosphere may be caused by
  convection resulting from intense solar heating
  of the ground by a cold wedge of air (cold
  front) near the ground causing a mass of warm air
  to be forced aloft or by a mountain range at an
  angle to the wind.

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• Dont do drugs.
• Drugs kill.
• Drugs destroy.
• Dont do drugs.

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• I walked slowly, nervously to the front door. I
  knew he was home now. I had driven by his house
  twenty times. His car was out front. I rang the
  doorbell. He stood before me, my father. Do
  you remember me? I asked. My voice quivered.
  Kristi?

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• Amnesty now!
• Were in the United States, treat us equally!
• We help build this country through agriculture
  and construction.
• We contribute to the success of the U.S.
• Make us citizens!