The Horror Genre Textlet

The Horror Genre Textlet

Multiple Choice

Do all horror stories have monsters?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

The subject is a good way to define horror stories.

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Suspense is when you don't know

• the setting

• the characters

• what happens next

• the plot

Multiple Choice

What do we feel when we don't know what will happen next?

• horror

• monsters

• tension

Multiple Choice

Which part of the sentence best creates suspense in the following sentence:

I brought the chair into the room and placed it on the very spot above the corpse.

• above the corpse

• I brought the chair

• and placed it

• into the room

Multiple Choice

The setting in a horror story is

• not important

• important

• very important

• not very important

Multiple Choice

A horror story character can

• get into trouble

• be in a dark basement or forest

• say things that are not normal

• All answers are correct

Multiple Choice

Setting for a horror story can be

• a sunny day

• a nice park

• a forest

Multiple Choice

Which words create suspense in the setting description? 

The night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor blinds were drawn. 

• the fire 

• blinds were drawn

• cold and wet

• small parolor

Multiple Choice

Genre means

• categories

• events

• characters

Multiple Choice

Parallel means that some parts are

• different

• similar

• not right

Multiple Choice

What is a quest?

• a theme of the story

• a search for something new

• the story plot