Genre Characteristics

Point of view, autobiography, and an actual event are characteristics of what genre?

• drama

• literary nonfiction

• nonfiction

• fiction

Dialogue, playwright, and stage directions belong in which genre?

• literary nonfiction

• fiction

• drama

• poetry

Which description bests fits the genre of drama?

• written to create emotion; often has imagery, rhyme, and rhythm

• written to make the reader laugh

• usually for theatrical performance where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue

Key ideas, articles, and organizational patterns are characteristics of what genre?

• drama

• literary nonfiction

• nonfiction

• poetry

To which genre do these characteristics belong? Stage directions, playwright, dialogue

• poetry

• expository

• drama

• persuasive

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the expository genre?

• guide word

• evidence

• faulty reasoning

• fact

These characteristics belong to what genre? Epigraph, autobiography, actual event

• drama

• literary nonfiction

• expository

• fiction

These characteristics belong to what genre? Exaggeration, false dilemma, central argument

• poetry

• drama

• persuasive

• literary nonfiction

These characteristics belong to what genre? Key word, article, organizational pattern

• fiction

• expository

• drama

• persuasive

Which genre is characterized by the use of rhyme, meter, and stanzas?

• A) Drama

• B) Poetry

• C) Fiction

• D) Nonfiction