LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
GENRE AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
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The stories are true and are about real things, people, events, and places
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Stories that come from an oral tradition and are passed down from generation to generation.
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Stories are made up by the author and are NOT true. Sometimes these can be “based on true events".
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a play or script. designed to be performed or spoken out loud.
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written in verse with a heavy focus on figurative language.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nonfiction books contain “prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history” (from The New Oxford American Dictionary). Nonfiction books will usually have tables of contents.
Detailed explanation-2: -narrative nonfiction writing-a STORY that is TRUE, but reads like fiction and contains elements of fiction, such as characters, setting, plot. Examples of narrative nonfiction include biography and autobiography.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nonfiction is literature that, regardless of the subject matter, has a simple goal: to provide information. It should be based on facts and conclusions of the author’s research or expertise, as opposed to the creativity of the author’s imagination.