This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Literary Genres – Quiz 43 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Genres Quiz 43 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What would be the best resource to use if you needed another word for "quiet?" A) Dictionary. B) Atlas. C) Thesaurus. D) Encyclopedia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thesaurus. 2. Which literary genre often teaches a moral, typically with animals as characters? A) Poetry. B) Fable. C) Humour. D) Mystery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fable. 3. In the following quotation from the psalms, identify which literary tool (simile, metaphor, repetition, or synonym) is being used."He is like a tree planted by streams of water." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Synonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 4. When you feel extreme suffering this is called ..... A) Identification. B) Adventures. C) Pathos. D) Hamartia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathos. 5. A story about a real person's life that is written by herself or himself. A) Biography. B) Myth. C) Autobiography. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autobiography. 6. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses "me, my, I, we" and shows the main character's feelings. A) 3rd POV. B) 2nd POV. C) 1st POV. D) 3rd POV limited. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1st POV. 7. Which genre of literature tells the story of a person's life written by that person? A) Biography. B) Autobiography. C) Informational. D) Realistic Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autobiography. 8. It is a division or type of literature A) Prose. B) Genre. C) Biography. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Genre. 9. Which genre? "Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan. It's not every day you find yourself in combat with a half lion, half human. But when you are the son of a Greek god it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster. A) Science fiction. B) Reakistic fiction. C) Myth. D) Fantasy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fantasy. 10. A rascal character experiences adventures and goes through no or slight change of character development A) Epistolary. B) Novel of manners. C) Bildungsroman. D) Picaresque. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Picaresque. 11. Novels are an example of A) Drama. B) Fiction. C) Nonfiction. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fiction. 12. A play, on stage, real characters, visual, dialogues and monologues A) Drama. B) Tragedy. C) Fiction. D) Diary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drama. 13. This refers to the categories according to which literary works are commonly classified and may imply a set of conventions related to a particular genre. A) Form. B) Motif. C) Structure. D) Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Form. 14. A story that is made up but could happen in real life. A) Fantasy. B) Realistic Fiction. C) Science Fiction. D) Horror. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realistic Fiction. 15. It is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, a parallel universe and extra-terrestrial life. A) Digi-Fiction. B) Doodle Fiction. C) Science Fiction. D) Creative Non-Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Science Fiction. 16. Identify the genre:Stories that were passed down by word of mouth from one generation to another. Often, there are many versions of the same story. A) Fairy tale. B) Folklore or folk tale. C) Autobiography. D) Fable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Folklore or folk tale. 17. A story including elements that could not really happen. May include magic or talking animals. A) Poetry. B) Fantasy. C) Realistic Fiction. D) Science Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fantasy. 18. A text that included steps for making a recipe would be which of the following purposes? A) Explain. B) Inform. C) Entertain. D) Persuade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Explain. 19. Which are the general categories of conflict? A) Internal & external conflict. B) Man vs man (or character vs character). C) Forces of the nature & internal conflict. D) Society & external conflict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal & external conflict. 20. Stage is the theatrical equipment such as curtains, flats, backdrops or platforms used in a dramatic production. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLiterary Genres Quiz 1Literary Genres Quiz 2Literary Genres Quiz 3Literary Genres Quiz 4Literary Genres Quiz 5Literary Genres Quiz 6Literary Genres Quiz 7Literary Genres Quiz 8Literary Genres Quiz 9Literary Genres Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books