AUTHOR’S PURPOSE

PERSUADE

• Includes opinions
• Tries to get you to do something
• EX: commercials, entertainment

INFORM

• Learn
• Non- fiction facts
• EX: newspaper, text books, cook books, biography

EXPRESS

• Personal feelings
• EX: journals/diary, letter to a friend, poems, songs, autobiography

ENTERTAINMENT

• Sad, scary, funny,etc.
• EX:Fiction—-> A Dogs Way Home

DESCRIBE

• Figurative language
• Sensory language
• Tells about the topic
• EX: poetry, imagery