WorksheetsGenres
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 4hrs 41mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Monsters, magic, and animals talking
a)
Realistic fiction
b)
Fantasy
c)
Science Fiction
d)
Biography
2.
Aliens, Space Craft, setting is in the future.
a)
Fantasy
b)
Realistic Fiction
c)
Tall Tale
d)
Science Fiction
3.
A non fiction story about a person's life
a)
Historical fiction
b)
Fantasy
c)
Biography
d)
Tall Tale
4.
A story set in a real place in the past (like the Great Depression or World War II) with made up, but believable characters.
a)
Realistic Fiction
b)
Fantasy
c)
Biography
d)
Historical Fiction
5.
A story with suspects, clues, and usually a crime that needs to be solved.
a)
Mystery
b)
Realistic Fiction
c)
Adventure
d)
Historical Fiction
6.
A real story where the author writes about him or herself.
a)
Realistic Fiction
b)
Autobiography
c)
Biography
d)
Fantasy
7.
A fiction story designed to teach a lesson, often with personified animals
a)
Realistic fiction
b)
Fable
c)
Adventure
d)
Tall Tale
8.
This genre has characters, settings, and events that could happen in real life.
a)
Fantasy
b)
Tall Tale
c)
Fiction
d)
Realistic Fiction
9.
An INFORMATIONAL text
a)
is fiction
b)
is nonfiction
c)
could be either
10.
Fiction is
a)
Real Information
b)
Caption under a picture
c)
Made-Up Story
d)
TV Guide
11.
A FANTASY (a story with imaginary things in it)
a)
is fiction
b)
is nonfiction
c)
could be either
12.
Normally fables have _______ as characters?
a)
children
b)
bugs
c)
animals
d)
teachers
13.
Stories that could really happen. Contemporary fiction is set in modern times.
a)
historical fiction
b)
fantasy
c)
realistic fiction
d)
informational
14.
Star Wars is an example of what genre?
a)
historical fiction
b)
realistic fiction
c)
science fiction
d)
informational
15.
All poems must rhyme.
a)
true
b)
false
16.
Text that uses rhythm and will sometimes rhyme.
a)
Fiction
b)
Literary nonfiction
c)
Poetry
17.
What genre has a suspenseful story with puzzling events?
a)
Realistic Fiction
b)
Mystery
c)
Informational Fiction
d)
Science Fiction
18.
What genre has a plot and characters that could really happen in life?
a)
Mystery
b)
Non-Fiction
c)
Historical Fiction
d)
Realistic Fiction
19.
What genre is a made up story that has accurate components from history?
a)
Non-Fiction
b)
Realistic Fiction
c)
Informational Fiction
d)
Historical Fiction
20.
This type of story is impossible. It might have talking animals or magic.
a)
Fantasy
b)
Fiction
c)
Traditional Literature
d)
Science Fiction
21.
This type of story has elements of futuristic technology and science.
a)
Fiction
b)
Future Fiction
c)
Fantasy
d)
Science Fiction
22.
What is a book that is about a specific time in someone's life written by that person?
a)
Biography
b)
Autobiography
c)
Memoir
d)
Realistic Fiction
23.
What is a book that is about someone's life that is written by that person?
a)
Biography
b)
Autobiography
c)
Memoir
d)
Non-Fiction
24.
A fictional narrative with a useful truth (moral), especially in which animals speak as humans; legendary, supernatural tale (ex: The Tortoise and the Hare)
a)
fable
b)
tall tale
c)
science fiction
d)
mystery
25.
The songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a people or "folk" as handed down by word of mouth.
a)
biography
b)
fantasy
c)
science fiction
d)
folktale
26.
A kind or category of literature
a)
fiction
b)
type
c)
genre
d)
nonfiction
27.
Story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, which has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material.
a)
Fable
b)
Legend
c)
Historical Fiction
d)
Fantasy
28.
Stories that usually take place in the Wild West; the main character’s strength, skills, or size are greatly exaggerated in a humorous way.
a)
Myth
b)
Fable
c)
Tall Tale
d)
Fairy Tale
29.
Your social studies of history book falls into this subgenre:
a)
Informational Writing
b)
Science Fiction
30.
Your science textbook falls into this subgenre:
a)
Informational Writing
b)
Persuasive Writing
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