Literature Analysis Across Genres

​Literary Genre Review

​Read each of the following questions and answer accordingly.

Multiple Choice

What genre does the following description belong to?

When an author writes a story about another person's real life.

• Autobiography

• Biography

• Editoial

• Realistic Fiction

Fill in the Blanks

A

fiction story is story that could have happened but didn't.

​First Story

Our story starts out when a young lady moves into an apartment in an old house with her parents. Her neighbors include two elderly retired actresses and a strange man who lives upstairs and trains mice for a circus act. Despite the weirdness, she is very bored. Her parents work a lot and they tend to just ignore her. One day she discovers a door with a brick wall behind it. Seems kind of strange, right? But get this: when she opens the door, there's a hallway. She goes through and ends up in an entirely different world. It's like her own, but a little off. She has another mother, another father, and neighbors. And bonus, cats can talk. But wait, why do they have buttons as eyes? And now her real mother and father are

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missing, did they kidnap her real parents?

Multiple Choice

What literary genre was this excerpt? How do you know?

• terror

• fear

• horror

• sad

​Excerpt 2

​Alone

From childhood's hour. have not been

As others were - I have not seen

As others saw - I could not bring

My passions from a common spring.

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow; I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone;

And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone.​

Subject | Subject

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Fill in the Blanks

What literary genre does the previous excerpt belong to?

Multiple Choice

A mystery is a story with suspects, clues and usually a _____ that needs to be solved.

• person

• crime

• party

• solution

Multiple Choice

A story that demonstrates a useful truth and/or teaches a lesson.

• Folk Tale

• Myth/Legends

• Drama

• Fable

Open Ended

Which literary genre does this image belong to?

Fill in the Blanks

fiction is a story set in a real place in the past with made up, but believable characters.

Multiple Choice

A story originating in popular culture, typically based on by word of mouth.

• Folk Tale

• Fable

• Fantasy

• Poetry

Multiple Choice

Non - Fiction is a fake story.

• True

• False

Fill in the Blanks

What kind of literary genre is a memoir an example of?

Match

Match the following

• Avengers

• Stories that could have happened but didn't.

• Drama

• Fantasy

• Traditional stories based on the gods.

Science Fiction

Realistic Fiction

Writing that is meant to be acted out.

Hocus Pocus, The Hobbit, Maleficent

Myth/Legends

• Science Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Writing that is meant to be acted out.

• Hocus Pocus, The Hobbit, Maleficent

• Myth/Legends

Open Ended

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