Genre Review

A story for stage performance.

• Folk Tale

• Play/Drama

• Mystery

• Fiction

Tags

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This kind of book tells about the life a real person:

• biography

• folktale

• mystery

A biography is considered fiction.

• true

• false

A biography is a story about somebody's life that is written by the person.

• true

• false

Realistic fiction is about people and events that are imaginary. The characters, however, act and talk like real people, and the events are written as if they could happen in real life.

• true

• false

A novel is non-fiction.

• true

• false

Sarah reads a text and identifies it as a poem because:

• There are stage directions.

• There are text features.

• There is a theme.

• There are stanzas and line breaks.

An autobiography...

• is writing that is not fiction.

• a sudden sharp feeling of pain or distress.

• is the story of a person's life written by that person.

• is an account of a person's life written by someone other than the subject.

This genre always contains elements that are made-up or created by the author.

• biography

• poetry

• informational

• fiction

Summer camp was just no fun;

I got too hot out in the sun.

They made us all play basketball;

I wasn't having fun at all!

What kind of writing is this?

• drama

• fiction

• non-fiction

• poem