CH. 8: Purpose & Types of Writing

Question 1

Informational Writing

Answer 1

nonfiction
factual
conveys information

Question 2

Informational Writing can be found where?

Answer 2

Almanacs, reference books, and newspapers.

Question 3

Process Text

Answer 3

Explains how to do something. Like a guide on how to plant trees. Not the same as informational text.

Question 4

Types of Informational Writing

Answer 4

1. Cause & Effect: reasons and explanations as to why something occurred.
2. Compare & Contrast: Compares two or more items and establishes differences and similarities.

Question 5

Narrative Writing

Answer 5

any kind of writing that tells a story

Question 6

Fiction

Answer 6

stories that did not really happen

Question 7

Nonfiction

Answer 7

writing based on real facts. Some nonfiction can tell a story.

Question 8

Protagonist

Answer 8

Hero

Question 9

Antagonist

Answer 9

opposes the hero

Question 10

A plot consists of…

Answer 10

exposition
rising action
climax
falling action
resolution

Question 11

Internal Conflicts

Answer 11

struggles that occur within a character

Question 12

External Conflicts

Answer 12

struggles that occur outside the character.

Question 13

Personal Essay

Answer 13

short, flexible, autobiographical work about you that explains why you would be a great addition to whomever you are writing to.

Question 14

Reflective Writing

Answer 14

writing that is formal or informal about a subject matter after it has been presented in literature or other media, using emotions, memories, or thoughts.

Question 15

Communicative Response.

Answer 15

where the writer brings out feelings or questions the roles within the literature studied, in order to find deeper meaning or connection to the text.

Question 16

Expository Writing

Answer 16

Writing that seeks to explain or EXPOSE.
Newspapers, essays, magazines, instruction manuals, textbooks, encyclopedias.

Question 17

Description Essay

Answer 17

when the writer wants to describe the characteristics or features of a person, place, thing, process, etc… They seek to stimulate the senses.

Question 18

Augusten Burroughs’ memoir ‘Running with Scissors

Answer 18

There were no rules to follow at Dr. Finch’s house.

Question 19

How long have memoirs been around?

Answer 19

Since ancient times– around or before 50BC

Question 20

Which Hemmingway work is a memoir?

Answer 20

A Moveable Feast

Question 21

Creative Writing

Answer 21

Any writing that is origional and self expressive.