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From Long Walk to Freedom. by NELSON MANDELA. What is Nonfiction?. Writing about real people, places, and events Biography Autobiography Essay Informative Article Interview. Autobiography. The story of a person’s life Told by that person First-person point of view
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From Long Walk to Freedom by NELSON MANDELA
What is Nonfiction? • Writing about real people, places, and events • Biography • Autobiography • Essay • Informative Article • Interview
Autobiography • The story of a person’s life • Told by that person • First-person point of view • Normally book length to cover whole life • Shorter versions: • Journals, diaries, letters, and memoirs
Biography • The story of a person’s life • Told by someone else • Contains same elements as fiction • Plot, character, and setting
Main Idea and Supporting Details • Most nonfiction focuses on a main idea. • Main idea is the most important point or message that the writer wants to communicate. • Supporting Details give more information about the main idea.
Noun The ability to recover quickly from illness; change or misfortune resiliency
incomprehensible • Adj • Not understandable (hard to understand)
transitory • Adj • Lasting only a short time; temporary
curtailed (curtail) • Adj (verb) • Cut short
indivisible • Adj • Incapable of being divided