WorksheetsCrime Fiction Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Crime stories are like jigsaw puzzles because the reader is constantly collecting...
(a)
What is the name of the technique that crime writers use to make the reader believe that someone other than the culprit committed the crime?
sleuth
red herring
clues
evidence
A claim (or piece of evidence) that shows that a person was elsewhere when a criminal is alleged to have taken place is called...
A Suspect
Clues
A Decoy
An Alibi
The characteristics or aspects that allow us to identify a crime fiction text are called crime genre...
(a)
The crime fiction plot usually follows the structure of...
Clues →Crime → Evidence →Punishment→ Solution
Crime → Clues → Evidence → Solution → Punishment
Evidence → Clues→ Crime → Solution → Punishment
Crime → Solution → Evidence → Clues→ Punishment
It can not be a crime fiction story without two things...
A suspect and a detective
A crime and a victim
Clues and evidence
A crime and a person solving the crime
What is the technique called when the reader of the story knows more than the characters in the story?
Dramatic Irony
Foreshadowing
Verbal Irony
Flashback
When a detective believes a particular person has committed a crime, that person is called a...
(a)
True or False: To be considered part of the crime fiction genre, a story must have a professional investigator solving the crime
True: the detective must have training
False: anyone can be trying to solve the crime- even an amateur or everyday person
In their writing, the crime writer always aims for the reader to experience...
suspense
mystery or curiosity
tension
all of the above
