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• Creative nonfiction


  A true and accurate story about events and people, also called literary non-fiction or narrative nonfiction, to communicate information in a way that reads like fiction
• Categories of creative nonfiction

  • Biography
  • Autobiography
  • Personal informal essay
• Biography


  • Life history of an individual written by someone else
• Autobiography


  • Story of a person's life written by themselves
• Personal informal essay


  • A reflection, a response to something about a personal experience
• Main elements of creative nonfiction

  • Setting (time and place)
  • Descriptive imagery (using 5 senses)
  • Figurative language (use of figures of speech)
  • Plot (main subject or reason of the story)
  • Characters (people involved in author's memory)