Test Yourself On Reading Genre's Test 3/17/10 Flashcards

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1. Literary genre that is a history of a person's life written or told by that person or an individual's interpretation of his own life.	A. Information (Non-Fiction)
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2. Literary genre that is a story usually for children, about elves,hobgoblins,dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.	B. Science Fiction
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3. Literary genre pertaining to,treating,or characteristic of history or past events, based on or reconstructed from an event,custom,or style,in the past or having once existed or lived in the real world, as opposed to being part of a legend or fiction or as distinguished from religious belief.	C. Mystery
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4. Literary genre that is an extravagantly and humorously exaggerated story of the backwoods exploits of an American frontiersman	D. Autobiography (Non-Fiction)
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5. Literary genre that is intended for teaching and related informational purposes primarily intended to educate rather than certain	E. Folktale/ Tall Tales
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6. Literary genre that is a brief allegorical narrative, in verse or prose, illustrating a moral thesis or satirizing human beings. The characters of a fable are usually animals who talk and act like people while retaining their animal traits.	F. Fable
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7. Literary genre interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real, practical, pertaining to, characterized by, or given to the representation in literature or art of things as they really are, or resembling or simulating life.	G. Realistic Fiction
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8. Literary genre whose plot involves a crime or other event that remains puzzlingly unsettled until the very end.	H. Fairy Tale
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9. Literary genre pertaining to an exciting or very unusual experience, participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises, a bold, usually risky undertaking, or hazardous action of an uncertain outcome	I. Fantasy
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10. Literary genre in which a background of science or pseudoscience is an integral part of the story. Many of the events recounted in a science fiction story are within the realm of future possibility like robots, space travel, interplanetary war, or invasions from outer space.	J. Biography (Non-Fiction)
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11. Literary genre that is an imaginative or fanciful work, esp. one dealing with supernatural or unnatural events or characteristics.	K. Historical Fiction
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12. Literary genre that is a written account of another person's life or the reconstruction in print or on film, of the lives of real men and women.	L. Adventure
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