Literary Genres Quiz

Which genre consists of stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting?

• Fable

• Maxim

• Legend

• Realistic Fiction

Which genre is imaginative fiction dependent on strangeness of setting and characters?

• Fantasy

• Fiction

• Novel

• Historical Fiction

Which genre contains stories that may or may not be true but contain details that are hard to believe?

• Myth

• Tall Tale

• Fairy Tale

• Horror

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.4.9

What is the classification of a literary work by its form, content, and style into categories such as poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction?

• Drama

• Mystery

• Genres

• Science Fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which genre focuses on a puzzling crime, situation, or circumstance that needs to be solved?

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Mystery

• Folklore

Which genre is set in a real place, during a culturally recognizable time, and can have a mix of actual events and ones from the author's imagination?

• Historical Fiction

• Novel

• Science Fiction

• Legend

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.9

Which genre is a short moral story often animal characters that illustrate a moral lesson and may end with a pithy maxim?

• Fable

• Legend

• Tall Tale

• Folklore

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.4.9

What is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary?

• Genre

• Realistic Fiction

• Historical fiction

• Fiction

What genre is a written work that tells a story through action and speech and is meant to be acted on a stage; play?

• Mystery

• Drama

• Folklore

• Myth

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

What is a short statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct?

• Fable

• Genre

• Novel

• Maxim

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5