Non-Fiction Texts

To Inform

To Persuade

Dictio
n

Formal
Factual
3rd person
Technical

Syntax

Simple
Compoun
d

Tone

Objective
Authoritati
ve
Credible
Reflective

High modality
Emotive
Descriptive
Figurative
Repetition
1st/2nd person
Rhetorical questions
Exclamations
Varied length of
sentences
Frustration
Angry
Passionate
Enthusiastic

To Present a Line of
Argument
3rd person
Factual
Some
descriptive/emotive
Repetition of key terms
Formal
Compound
Complex
Exclamation

Authoritative
Credible
Thoughtful
Critical

Poetry
Device
Diction

Examples
Similes
Metaphors
Personification
Repetition of words, phrases, lines,
stanzas
Description
Sensory imagery
Emotive