Writing Genres Review

What is the point of an opening in a feature news article?

• To provide a major quote from someone that was interviewed
• To provide a statistic related to the article's topic
• To provide answers to who, what, when, why, and how
• To provide interest in your topic to the reader

Why do you answer who, what, when, where, and why in the nut graph?

• The nut graph concludes the main ideas of the article
• The nut graph offers a reader a quick preview of the article's contents
• The nut graph offers a transition to other ideas in the article
• The nut graph is supplies the only facts of the article

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What is the part of the news article that sets up what a quote is going to discuss?

• Nut graph
• Conclusion
• Transition
• Opening

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Which of these nonfiction genres is written in first person? (i.e. uses "I")

• Biography
• Encyclopedia Entry
• Review
• Memoir

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Which feature is NOT included in a biography?

• Quick facts
• Picture of the person
• Headings
• Works Cited

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For a poem, what is a speaker?

• The author of the poem
• The fictional narrator of the poem
• A literary scholar that comments on the poem
• A journalist that reviews poetry

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Which is NOT true about a poem's theme?

• A theme is written as a complete sentence
• A theme is one or two words 
• A theme communicates the author's main idea 
• A theme reveals a moral or lesson 

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Which is NOT a quality of a great speech?

• A speech that has a clear target audience
• A speech that has a main message
• A speech that includes inaccurate facts
• A speech that uses figures of speech to add interest

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What is a soliloquy?

• A dramatic speech spoken to a large group of people on stage
• A dramatic speech spoken to the audience
• A dramatic speech that is narrated off stage
• A dramatic speech spoken by one character on stage

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What is NOT the point of a soliloquy?

• It provides additional emotion to a scene
• It enhances the conflict of the play
• It reveals a character's inner thoughts
• It spoils the ending of the play

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