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Literary Nonfiction Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a memoir?
a)
A story about a person's entire life.
b)
A made up story
c)

A story about small section of time, multiple events in a person's life.

d)
One event in a person's life.
2.
What is a biography?
a)
A story about a real person's life written by that person.
b)
A story about a real person's life written by another person.
c)
A story about a made up person.
d)
A story about one event in a person's life.
3.

A personal narrative is---

a)

a random story

b)

about a person's whole life

c)

about one significant event in a person's life

d)

a daily account of a person's life

4.
What is an autobiography?
a)
A story about a real person's life written by another person.
b)
A made up story
c)
A story about a real person's life written by that person.
d)
A story about one event in a person's life.
5.
What is a simile?
a)
A comparison of two things not using like or as.
b)
An exaggeration
c)
A comparison of two things using like or as.
d)
Sound words
6.
Literary nonfiction is a genre that is written like a story, but has _____________ information.
a)
fake
b)
true
c)
new
d)
unfair
7.

Which of the following is the narrator’s perspective when telling a story?

a)

Narrator

b)

Sight

c)

Point of View

d)

Dialogue

8.

What genre of writing is at least partly made up by the author?

a)

Autobiography

b)

Biography

c)

Fiction

d)

Nonfiction

9.

Which genre of writing is true/real information?

a)

Fiction

b)

Nonfiction

c)

Poetry

d)

Myth

10.

What point of view uses a narrator that is part of the story; uses pronouns like I, me, my, us, etc?

a)

First person

b)

Second person

c)

Third person

11.
Literary nonfiction is true but looks like _______
a)
nonfiction
b)
fantasy
c)
fiction
d)
books
12.
All of the following are types of literary nonfiction except _______________.
a)
biography
b)
personal narrative
c)
science fiction
d)
memoir
13.
Autobiographies tell the true life story of _______________.
a)
the writer
b)
the reader
c)
another person
d)
Harry Potter
14.
Memoirs are written in ________ person because the writer is telling his or her own story.
a)
second
b)
first
c)
third
d)
omniscient
15.
A biography is written in the _______ person because they are not written about the author's life.
a)
first
b)
second
c)
third
16.
Literary nonfiction is a type of writing that uses literary techniques and devices to tell a true life story.  
a)
true
b)
false
17.
The character or characters in Literary Nonfiction are...
a)
The person the true story is about and the other people mentioned in the story
b)
The people who have read the book about the person's life
18.

What is personification?

a)

giving human qualities to non-human things

b)

using the same consonant sound at the beginning of words

c)

making a reference to a famous work of art, song, text, show, etc.

d)

the perspective from which a story is told

19.

What is alliteration?

a)

the perspective from which a story is told

b)

giving human qualities to non-human things

c)

a comparison of two things by saying one thing is another

d)

using the same consonant sound at the beginning of words

20.

What is a metaphor?

a)

a comparison of two things that uses "like" or "as"

b)

a comparison of two things that says one thing is another

c)

a comparison of two things that uses color to connect them

d)

giving human qualities to nonhuman things