Non-fiction elements Literary elements

essay form story/narration

explanation/exposition place/scene/setting

standard rhetorical

patternscharacterization

focuses on ideas, facts

(not language)

author personally

engaged

researched facts literary voice/feel

artistic, instinctual

polished language

• adjective involving the use of the imagination or original ideas in order to create something

“Factually accurate narrative”

• prefix expressing negation or absence

• noun invention as opposed to fact. accepted as true for the sake of convenience.

Definitions: Oxford English DictionaryImages: BarnesandNoble.comGraph: University of Idaho – English Department