Genre Quiz

Science Fiction are stories about science and technology, they also include...

• Robots, Aliens, and Time Travel

• Cars, Animals, and Time Travel

• Robots, Animals, and Cars

• Aliens, Robots, and Cars

A type of fictional narrative / story set in a particular time in history; may include real historical figures and events, but did NOT really occur

• historical fiction
• nonfiction
• science fiction
• realistic fiction

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The TRUE story of a person's life in which the author is writing about himself / herself

• autobiography
• biography
• nonfiction
• fantasy

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Verse with imagery that creates emotional responses; varies from rules of prose

• prose
• poetry
• fantasy
• historical fiction

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Identify the subgenre of the book below by reading description:

Description: Percy Jackson has just discovered that he’s the son of a Greek god. With the help of his friends, a satyr and a daughter of the goddess Athena, he must rescue Zeus’s master lightning bolt while trying to fight off the mythical creatures determined to keep him from succeeding.

• fantasy

• realistic fiction

• historical fiction

• mystery

Identify the subgenre of the book below by reading description:

Description: Claudia and Jamie Kincaid decide to run away from home and live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While living in the museum, they discover a statue that may be a priceless work of art. To answer the riddle of the statue, they must find clues in the home of an eccentric collector.

• fantasy

• mystery

• historical fiction

• realistic fiction

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Identify the subgenre of the book below by reading description:

Description:At the beginning of World War II, the Nazis begin to take away the Jews of Copenhagen, Denmark. Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in her best friend, Ellen Rosen, and helps smuggle Ellen and her family to safety in Sweden.

• fantasy

• historical fiction

• mystery

• realistic fiction

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

This Star Wars book cover hints at which genre?

• Biography

• Science Fiction

• Autobiography

• Realistic Fiction

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Which plot is from a fantasy genre?

• a princess must escape from an evil dragon’s castle
• citizens have just learned that a giant meteoroid has wiped out the eastern seaboard
• a young boy finds his lost dog by placing an ad in a local paper
• a person learns a lesson by the actions of an animal in a story

Once upon a time there was a small girl named Druid. She lived in the forest with many beautiful plants and animals. One day the queen sent for her and asked her to come to the palace on the hill.

The genre of this piece is most likely:

• essay
• fairy tale
• fable
• poetry

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CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5