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From Long Walk to Freedom

From Long Walk to Freedom. by NELSON MANDELA. What is Nonfiction?. Writing about real people, places, and events Biography Autobiography Essay Informative Article Interview. Autobiography. The story of a person’s life Told by that person First-person point of view

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From Long Walk to Freedom

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  1. From Long Walk to Freedom by NELSON MANDELA

  2. What is Nonfiction? • Writing about real people, places, and events • Biography • Autobiography • Essay • Informative Article • Interview

  3. Autobiography • The story of a person’s life • Told by that person • First-person point of view • Normally book length to cover whole life • Shorter versions: • Journals, diaries, letters, and memoirs

  4. Biography • The story of a person’s life • Told by someone else • Contains same elements as fiction • Plot, character, and setting

  5. Main Idea and Supporting Details • Most nonfiction focuses on a main idea. • Main idea is the most important point or message that the writer wants to communicate. • Supporting Details give more information about the main idea.

  6. Noun The ability to recover quickly from illness; change or misfortune resiliency

  7. incomprehensible • Adj • Not understandable (hard to understand)

  8. transitory • Adj • Lasting only a short time; temporary

  9. curtailed (curtail) • Adj (verb) • Cut short

  10. indivisible • Adj • Incapable of being divided

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