Genre Basics
What is the word used to describe different types of books?
What is genre?
What is the fiction genre that is based in present-times and could really happen?
What is realistic fiction?
Give three examples of nonfiction book topics.
Many answers (will give points based on correct responses).
Harry Potter series
What is fantasy?
Which genre am I?
Who Is Series?
What is biography?
What is the general term for books with stories that are made up?
What is fiction?
What is the fiction genre that could really happen but is based in the past?
What is historical fiction?
What is the definition of nonfiction?
Answer must relate to the books being about true/real things (person, place, event, animal, etc.)
I Survived series
What is historical fiction?
What genre am I?
Who Would Win Series
What is nonfiction?
What type of books is full of facts that are not made up?
What is nonfiction?
What is the fiction genre where the characters are trying to figure out something unknown?
What is mystery?
What is the nonfiction genre that is written about a person but someone else?
What is a biography?
What is realistic fiction?
Which fiction genre includes made up stories that include aliens, the future, or another science-related topic?
What is science fiction?
Why are genres important?
What is to help the reader discover the purpose of the book?
What is the fiction genre that has magical elements that couldn't happen in real life?
What is fantasy?
What is the nonfiction genre where a person writes a book about themselves?
What is autobiography?
Jack and the Beanstalk
What is fairy tale?
Which fiction genre includes books that are meant to teach lessons or morals, such as The Tortoise and the Hare?
What is a fable?
Give three examples of fiction genres.
Many correct answers (will give points based on # of correct answers).
What is the fiction genre that often starts with "Once Upon a Time"?
What is a fairytale?
What is the nonfiction genre where writings (often short) are meant to make someone feel something?
What is poetry?
Nate the Great
What is mystery?
Which fiction genre includes made up stories passed by mouth (speaking) from generation to generation often told around a campfire?
What is a folk tale (folklore)?