2. 1. assumption 5. credible
2. circumstance 6. perspective
3. context 7. speculate
4. convince 8. verify

3. belief perceive
manipulate evidence
truth skeptics
distort

4. Fiction
Purpose
•Narrates (tells a story)
•Entertains
Subjects
•Made-up events
•Made-up characters
•Made-up settings
Narrator/Speaker
•A character may tell the story

5. Nonfiction
Purpose
• Explains
• Informs
• Persuades
• Describes
• Entertains
Subjects
• ideas
• Fact-based events
• Real people
• Real places
Narrator/Speaker
• Author is always the speaker

6. Fiction
Purpose Purpose
May
•Narrates (tells a story) explain, inform, •Explains
persuade, or •Informs
•Entertains
describe •Persuades
•Describes
Subjects •Entertains
May tell a story
•Made-up events Subjects
May be based on
•Made-up characters
real •ideas
•Made-up settings events, people, and •Fact-based events
places •Real people
Narrator/Speaker •Real places
May include
•A character may tell made-up Narrator/Speaker
the story examples
•Author is always the
speaker

7. Fiction
Short Story
Novel
Novella

8. Nonfiction
Autobiography/Biography
Essay
Journalism/News
Speech
Report

9. underlying meaning of the story,
a universal truth,
a significant statement the story is
making about society, human
nature, or the human condition.

10. Themes can be found everywhere:
literature, stories, art, movies etc…
The theme of a fable is its moral.
The theme of a parable is its teaching.
The theme of a piece of literature is its
view about life and how people behave.

11. Theme = idea
The theme of a literary
work is its underlying
central idea or the
generalization it
communicates about
life.

12. At times the author's theme may
not confirm or agree with your
own beliefs.

13. Be aware that the theme never
completely explains the story.
It is simply one of the elements that make up
the whole.
Some short stories have secondary themes
as well.

14. Nonfiction: Main Idea
The central message, insight, or opinion in a work of
nonfiction.
The supporting details are the pieces of evidence a writer
uses to prove his or her point.
Reread to help you identify the main idea and supporting
details in a work. As you read, follow these steps:
• Note key details to decide what the main idea might be.
• If a detail does not seem to support that main idea, reread the
passage to be sure that you have not misinterpreted it.
• If necessary, revise your assumptions about the main idea.

15. Detail
Detail Detail
Main
Detail Idea Detail
Detail Detail

16. Cluster Diagram
Record details and main ideas
on a cluster diagram like this
one.
Detail Detail
Main Idea
Detail
Detail Detail
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