Literary Genres Quiz

the story of one's life told by oneself

• autobiography

• persuasive writing

• biography

• informational writing

the story of one's life told by another

• biography

• persuasive writing

• informational writing

• autobiography

writing that is meant to be acted on a stage (a play)

• fiction

• folklore

• poetry

• drama

Stories that come from the author's imagination

• fiction

• nonfiction

• folklore

• poetry

Text the uses rhythm and will sometimes rhyme.

• Poetry

• Literary nonfiction

• Fiction

A kind or category of literature

• genre

• nonfiction

• fiction

• type

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

• historical fiction

• fantasy

• prose

• poetry

Informational text using true facts and information

• historical fiction

• biography

• nonfiction

• fiction

A text that gives facts about the solar system

• Biography

• Science Fiction

• Informational

• Mystery

The Wall: Growing up behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis: In his most personal work to date, Peter Sis offers a brilliant graphic memoir, taking readers on an extraordinary journey as he recalls his youth growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, when his country was on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain. What genre?

• biography

• informational

• autobiography

• narrative