Literary Genres Quiz 1 (20 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" .