Genre Text Quiz

A nonfiction book written by someone about another real person's true life story is called a ________________.

• autobiography

• mythology

• biography

• cartoon

This type of written story is about made-up situations and fake characters that come from the author's imagination. This type of text is usually very entertaining but isn't true.

• nonfiction

• fiction

• poetry

• songs

This type of story can be fiction or nonfiction, and it uses comic strips. Sometimes it also uses graphics, pictures, or speech and thoughts written in bubble clouds above the characters' heads.

• all tv shows

• poetry

• fairy tale

• graphic novel

This type of story has fictional characters made up by the author's imagination, and the fake characters are in settings in the real world. The plot (story's events) could possibly happen in real life, but the story isn't true.

• nonfiction

• tall tale

• realistic fiction

• a dream

Funny fictional stories using EXAGGERATION. A character, like Paul Bunyan, seems normal, but he has superhuman characteristics that couldn't be real.

• Camping story only told on camping trips

• Tall Tale

• Computer game only seen on computers

• Nonfiction

This text type includes true, real, and factual information about real people, places, things, events, or ideas. An AR book about Golden Retrievers as pets is this type of book.

• Fairy Tale

• Nonfiction

• Historical Fiction

• Poetry

When a real person writes a book about their OWN life and experiences by using real facts and information about themselves, this is called an ___________________.

• poem

• note

• biography

• autobiography

This type of text makes a real person (like Daniel Boone or Robin Hood) famous for their actions with exaggeration and makes the text fiction.

• Legend

• TV Show

• Netflix

• Nonfiction

This type of story involves science, technology, or the future.

• Brochures

• Science Fiction

• Fiction

• Biography

This text is a fictional story involving CASTLES, MAGIC, GOOD versus EVIL, or talking animals. It usually has a HAPPY ENDING.

• nonfiction

• Tall Tale

• poetry

• Fairy Tale