Literary Genres Quiz

What is a 'literary genre'?

• A song in literature

• The history of a text

• The category a text can be placed in

• The length of a text

What is a text?

• Anything you can use to gain information and meaning.

• All forms of communication are considered texts

• Anything you can use to gain meaning

• A text is anything produced in written, oral, or graphic form

What are the three main genres of literature?

• poems, plays, stories

• movies, songs, shows

• poetry, prose, drama

• poems, prose, drama

What is the definition of prose?

• Writing in paragraph form that mirrors regular speech

• Writing that only tells stories

• Writing that uses rhyme and rhythm

• Writing that is only fictional

Which of the following is NOT a prose text?

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What is poetry?

• A literary genre that can be sung.

• A literary genre written how we speak

• A literary genre written in lines and stanzas

• A literary genre that has pictures

What is a key element of poetry?

• It uses rhyme, rhythm, and meter

• It is only about love

• It is always written in prose form

• It cannot express deep thoughts

Which is NOT a form of poetry?

• Haiku

• Stories

• Lyrics

• Free Verse

A main element of drama is that it is:

• written to be sung.

• written to be illustrated.

• written to be performed by actors.

• written to be read silently.

Which is not an example of a drama text?

• plays

• novels

• tv shows

• movies