Genre Practice

My brother Orville and I grew up in Dayton, Ohio. We were always interested in mechanical things, long before we built the first motor-driven plane.
If an author wrote this, you would most likely find it

• in a biography
• in an autobiography
• in an encyclopedia
• in a dictionary

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

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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

In the dark laboratory there was a dish of a glowing green substance sitting on the shelf in the refrigerator. The door opened and the scientist slowly walked toward the refrigerator. As he opened the heavy stainless steel door, he was blinded by the light and transported to another time and place.

The genre of this piece is most likely:

• historical fiction

• science fiction

• realistic fiction

• nonfiction

Which of the following characters would least likely appear in a fantasy story?

• talking tree

• unicorn

• scientist

• flying dragon

This genre is divided into stanzas.

• nonfiction
• essay
• poetry
• drama

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

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A frog is an amphibian. It spends part of its life in the water. It spends the other part on land.

This text likely came from

• nonfiction
• poetry
• drama
• fiction

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The Life of George Washington by Betsy Ross is an example of

• a biography

• an autobiography

• a poem

• drama

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

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Characteristics such as: performed or read aloud with assigned roles, characters are developed through dialogue and staging, and actions are developed through the use of actions and scenes, are found in which genre?

• fantasy

• science fiction

• drama

• biography

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.7

Gary spends four to six paragraphs attempting to persuade his teachers to give no homework in an

• argumentative essay

• drama

• fable

• poem

A story with no known author originally passed from one generation to another by word of mouth is considered a 

• fable
• folktale
• myth
• poem

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CCSS.RL.2.2

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CCSS.RL.K.5