Nonfiction Text Features Review

These words are at the beginning of the section and tell what the section is about.

Facts, captions, headings, and subtitles can all be found in which genre?

Writing based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history is called...

What part of a nonfiction book can you find the index in?

Why do authors include graphics?

The subtitles are also known as:

This feature lets the reader know what something looks like. It is taken with a camera.

This tells what a certain part of a photograph or illustration is.

What is a graph?

What tells us what pictures, diagrams, and graphs are showing?

This lets the reader know what something looks like. It is drawn or painted.

Why do we authors use comparisons?

This feature is on the front cover of a book and tells us what the book is about.

An index helps a reader to

This helps readers understand where something is in the world.

This tells the reader what each section of the book is about and is found at the front.

This book is most likely about...

This feature is found at the back of the book and tells us what a word means.

Captions, boldface words, and diagrams are features in __________ text.

This feature is usually under a picture, and tells us more about it.

The difference between the glossary and the index is that the glossary gives definitions and index gives page numbers

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