This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Overview > Literary Genres – Quiz 30 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Genres Quiz 30 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are the five main elements of creative nonfiction? A) Setting, descriptive imagery, figurative language, plot, and character. B) Conflict, climax, resolution, theme, and tone. C) Rhyme, meter, stanza, imagery, and symbolism. D) Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting, descriptive imagery, figurative language, plot, and character. 2. This type of nonfiction tells a true story about a person, event, or place. Sometimes this kind of nonfiction can be written in the first person, but it always involves someresearch on the writer's part. A) Expository writing. B) Narrative. C) Persuasive Writing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative. 3. A book about imaginary creatures A) Science fiction. B) Non-fiction. C) Fantasy. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fantasy. 4. NON FICTION HAS FACTS, IS TRUE, BOLD WORDS AND A GLOSSARY A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 5. What story's setting takes the reader to a time in history? A) Historical Fiction. B) Folktale. C) Mystery. D) Fantasy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Historical Fiction. 6. Which genre is a narrative prose fiction? A) Essay. B) Fable. C) Memoir. D) Short Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Short Story. 7. Imagine you are a super mathematician. You have two numbers in front of you:7.25 and 7.5. Can you tell which one is smaller? A) 7.25 is smaller. B) 7.5 is smaller. C) Both are equal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7.25 is smaller. 8. Cookies are missing from the cookie jar and a team of children use clues to discover who took them, A) Poetry. B) Historical Fiction. C) Informtional. D) Mystery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mystery. 9. Which genre is a story about a person's life, written by another person? A) Autobiography. B) Biography. C) Fable. D) Legend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biography. 10. Which of the following is typically the purpose of fiction? A) To persuade. B) To entertain. C) To inform. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To entertain. 11. A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination. A) Free verse. B) Poetry. C) Fairy Tale. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 12. Fox tells the story of the fictional John Potter, a seasoned Union soldier who gets captured by Confederate forces during the American Civil War. Potter undergoes some of the most dreadful conditions imaginable while detained in a Confederate POW camp, but he soon makes friends with a Confederate guard who helps Potter survive as they realize that their differences are not as striking as their similarities. A) Science Fiction. B) Realistic Fiction. C) Fantasy. D) Historical Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Historical Fiction. 13. It is the imitation of a work of art to make fun of and criticize A) Satire. B) Allegory. C) Parody. D) Essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parody. 14. Which gospel presents Jesus as the God-Man? A) Mark. B) Matthew. C) John. D) Luke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John. 15. A(n) ..... story is an exciting story about a hero who goes on an unusual journey and does new and dangerous things. A) Comedy. B) Adventure. C) Suspense. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adventure. 16. When Sheila moves to a new school in California, she has some trouble fitting in with the other kids. She cannot afford the expensive clothing that the other kids wear and she does not have the newest cell phone, but she does have a good heart. Will a chance run-in with a celebrity whom Sheila admires give Sheila the confidence she needs to adapt to her new environment? A) Mystery. B) Historical Fiction. C) Fantasy. D) Realistic Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Realistic Fiction. 17. It is an oral art that focuses on the aesthetics of word play and intonation and voice inflection. A) Hyper Poetry. B) Flash Fiction. C) Spoken Poetry. D) Mobile Phone Text Tula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spoken Poetry. 18. ..... is a kind of literature where the author plays with words and rhythm. A) Poetry. B) Biography. C) Mystery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 19. FICTION ONLY HAS A BEGINNING AND AN ENDING A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 20. This genre provides factual information such as science and history books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and periodicals. A) Short stories. B) Literary. C) Informative. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Informative. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books