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Nonfiction Features

A fiction book might have words and a picture but a page of nonfiction can have many different things: photos, bold headings, labels, captions, and some bolded text. These are nonfiction text features. They are characteristics of nonfiction books, and most nonfiction books include some of them. Fiction books do not have many of these features.

Why do you think nonfiction books have these special features, but most fiction books do not?