Genre Quiz

What are the five main genres?

• Fiction, Drama, Fairytale, Nonfiction, Poetry

• Historical Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Nonfiction, Folklore

• Folklore, Drama, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

• Informational, Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Folklore

Poetry is

• writing that is true

• writing about love

• writing that influences the reader

• writing with the beauty of language

Which category of writing has been passed down orally for generations?

• Fiction

• Folklore

• Drama

• Poetry

This genre is written to be performed.

• Drama

• Poetry

• Historical Fiction

• Tall Tales

Which genre is autobiography a subgenre of?

Autobiography means

This subgenre has aliens, robots and futuristic technology.

• Biography

• Fairytale

• Science Fiction

• Fantasy

This subgenre is a short story with personified animals and a moral.

• Mythology

• Comedy

• Fantasy

• Fable

This subgenre has monsters, magic or characters with superpowers.

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Tall Tales

• Legend

Legends are based on a real person, and

• facts exaggerated in a serious way

• Robots, futuristic technology and space ships

• gods and goddesses

• events in the past