Non-fiction is factual, which means that it is presented as fact. The majority of the reading material with which we come into contact every day is likely to be non-fiction. What do a take-away menu and a scientific paper have in common? They are both non-fiction. The author's own opinions on the subject often come out in the form of bias, opinion, or emotive language, so the factual nature of what you are reading should always be questioned.
Test your knowledge by trying this quiz on non-fiction.
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Non-fiction text types
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A menu would be very hard to navigate if it were written in continuous, paragraphed prose. Menus make use of such features as changes in font style and font size, bold print, italics, pictures, headings and subheadings, colour, borders and boxed text
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Non-fiction can have many purposes: it can inform, entertain, advise, persuade, describe, instruct, or argue, among other things
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'Implicit' means 'implied'. To understand subtext, you need to look beyond the obvious meaning
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Writers of some types of non-fiction, such as news reports, aim for impartiality, but this is not a necessity of every type. Many non-fiction texts are subtly (or not so subtly) biased in favour of the author's opinion on the subject
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A piece of writing may be useful to you, but 'tone' describes the author's attitude to the subject (i.e. serious, passionate, angry, humorous, dispassionate, etc.)
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