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Literary Genres Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. Which genre is a story that teaches a lesson about people?
2. A story that attempts to explain basic question about the world usually contains gods & goddesses
3. Narrative work in which a story is told using a comic form.
4. The "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens is an example of a .....
5. Narrative literary works whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
6. A literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact.
7. What do you call a short composition where the author gives his/her opinion or writes a report on a topic ..... and is something you might write in English class?
8. Which TYPE of literature if fake and imagined by the author?
9. Ready for a chuckle? Can you tell me which genre is all about tickling your funny bone?
10. What is a play for theater, radio, or television that tells a story?
11. Which are the four main Literary Genres?
12. With a printed version, what can be used to do a research project on whales?
13. The author writes something from their imagination and for the reader's enjoyment
14. Your teacher asked you to read and critique a story about the journey in the space of a 21st century kid. What is the literary genre of the story?
15. A type of fantasy that uses science and technology (robots, time machines, etc.)
16. Define literature
17. Far away from here, following the Jade River, there was once a black mountain that cut into the sky like a jagged piece of rough material. The villagers called it Fruitless Mountain because nothing grew on it and birds and animals did not rest there.This is an example of:
18. What is a story that could happen in real life, but the plot and characters are fictional?
19. A type of folk tale, short in length, talking animals with clear character traits, teachers a moral or lesson
20. You want to find another word for "big" .
21. Horror, terror and supernatural elements are employed with gloomy and deserted settings
22. Uses strong female characters who is trying to live in modern world.
23. The where and when a story takes place
24. What is a written account of someone's life that they've written about themselves?
25. All of the following are subgenres of poetry, EXCEPT:
26. Historical Fiction is a story that happens in the .....
27. What are the two main literary genres?
28. In this genre, the author has created a magical world where anything is possible.
29. It is a type of writing that is shorter in lengththan a novel.
30. The act or process of forming reasons, drawing conclusions, and applying them to a case in discussion .....
31. A story in which something impossible is made to seem real-
32. Witty and short statements that challenge and require an answer.
33. Choose the best description of an autobiography .....
34. A traditional story that has been passed down and told as a matter of history but cannot be verified is a ..... (It also has significance to the culture from which it originated.)
35. An epic is narrative. Therefore, it is an example of prose.
36. The OLD STORIES passed down from GENERATION to GENERATION
37. And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight. Is an example of what:
38. A group of words in a poem written together and separated by a skipped line. (The paragraphs of poetry) This is called:
39. Fictional writing that can never be true:unicorns, leprechauns, fire breathing dragons
40. Which genre of literature tells the story of a person's life written by someone else?
41. Very old story that "explains" something in nature
42. The story about how the United States was born is an example of what type of literary genre?
43. Which genre deals with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets?
44. It deals with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology
45. An autobiography is an example of what genre
46. The word literature comes from the word littera that means
47. These genres can have characters that are make believe (not humans) in them.
48. What is the story about people's suffering, capture, escape, and rescue that explains human emotions?
49. Which genre is commonly written in the form of short assertions or poetic two-liners with rhyme?
50. Another important form of theater popularized during the Spanish colonization is the comedia, also known as moro-moro, linambay, or arakyo.
51. It features dark, mysterious, and suspenseful plots.
52. A struggle between a character and mother nature. Mother nature = weather, animals, insects, sickness, epidemics
53. Which genre of fiction deals with science, technology, and the future?
54. Which characteristics match the genre:set in the past with real people or a real event.
55. Harry Potter is an example of what literary genre?
56. What is the comparison that needs no qualifier?
57. Which genre has a many characters?
58. How many kinds of genres does the Literary genre have?
59. This type of lyric poetry is a downcast type of poem. It conveys feelings of sadness, heartache, and suffering.
60. Identify the genre:Writing that is imaginary but may include some truth.
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