Literary Genres
Could be non-fiction, seems real. Fiction because there are characters dialogue and a STORY.
What is Realistic Fiction?
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is Plot?
This ghastly Fortnite Halloween-themed challenge is sure to give you sinister dreams...
What are Fortnitemares?
The time period following the War of 1812 is known as what?
What is the Era of Good Feeling?
This classic horror movie franchise involves a demon who haunts the dreams of teenagers
What is a Nightmare on Elm Street?
Fiction that involves a suspenseful event, often a crime of some sort. The reader uses clues from the story and gradually discovers who has committed the crime to solve the conflict at the end.
What is Mystery?
There are hundreds of these in a graveyard
But dead bodies it is not
It’s what contains all the info as to
Who’s in each burial plot
What is a Tombstone?
In the series My Hero Academia, the name of the quirk that has been passed down from All-Might to Izuku is called...
What is One for All?
This trail was a 2,000 mile trek that frequently involved dying from dysentery, cholera, drowing, frequent murder and hostile Indians
What is the Oregon Trail?
This delightfully spooky Tim Burton movie features a King of Halloween who discovers Christmas Town, and attempts to bring Christmas to Halloween Town, with ghoulish results
What is a Nightmare before Christmas?
Fiction that takes place in an invented world that has different laws of nature. Some elements include animals that speak, magic, dragons, unicorns, special powers, etc...
What is Fantasy?
conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
What is Dialogue?
This city hosted a rather famous tea party in 1773
What is the city of Boston?
The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from what country?
What is France?
In this 2014 anime, the main character lives inside three walls designed to keep out human eating monsters
What is Attack on Titan?
This literary genre is usually based on science and technology. Can involve hard science and usually takes place in the future.
What is Science-Fiction?
an alphabetical list of terms or words found in or relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary.
What is a glossary?
In the cartoon Adventure Time, this villain is the physical embodiment of Death, who was created when the mutagenic bomb exploded
Who is the Lich?
This Act put a tax upon all paper products that the colonists used, from dice, to all printed materials?
What is the Stamp Act?
D-rank missions are usually given to what level of shinobi?
what are genin?
Fiction that includes a character who faces danger and must survive.
What is Survival/Adventure?
What type of music is a mummy's favorite?
What is (w)rap?
This act involved kidnapping American sailors and forcing them to serve on British or French naval ships
What is impressment?
This city is the location of some rather infamous witch trials
What is Salem?
In the anime Death Note, Ryuk is what type of creature?
What is a Shinigami?
The Lion and the Mouse is an example of what kind of genre?
What is a Fable?
The main character in a story
What is the protagonist?
What creature is the first season villain in the Netflix series Stranger Things?
What is the Demogorgon?
This plan called for all states, regardless of size, to receive exactly one vote in Congress. Benefited smaller states.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
In the series Demon Slayer, who is the Fire Hashira?
Who is Rengoku?
This type of non-fiction typically explains information.
What is expository non-fiction?
the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, big ideas that the author uses over and over in his/her writing. Usually universal in nature.
What is a Theme?
The doll Annabelle, originally appeared first in this movie
What is The Conjuring?
This plan called representation in Congress to be based upon population, benefiting larger states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
In the movie It, what is the name of the town that It lives in?
What is Derry?
This type of non-fiction explains information in a narrative format, usually beginning with a problem and ending with a solution.
What is Narrative Non-Fiction?
Oz had good ones from the north and south
And wicked ones from the east and west
But flying around on a broomstick
Is probably how they are known best
What are witches?
In the movie Get Out, what is the name of the location that black people are trapped in after they have the mind switching surgery? (hint: Kanye West currently resides there)
What is the Sunken Place?
A tax on a good/item that is made overseas or a tax on imported goods
What is a tariff?
In the anime Tokyo Ghoul, Ghouls are flesh-eating creatures who cannot eat or drink human food, except for one thing. What is it?
What is coffee?
a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.
What is a Legend?
Gold is discovered in this state in 1849, setting off a Gold rush
What is California?
This Compromise admitted the territory of Missouri as a slave state, added Maine as a free state, and set the 36 30 line as the line dividing free states from slave states?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This man, who shares his name with a famous WWE wrestler, was the first man to lead American settlers into Texas?
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
In the movie Happy Death Day, who does Tree discover is the real killer?
Who is Lori?