Name that Genre
What How Why
RACES
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100

A biographical story written about oneself narrated and (often) written by oneself.

What is autobiography?

100

Cite the best evidence to prove your thinking is logical.

What is citing evidence: why?

100

Restate and Answer.

What is the RA or thesis statement?

100

Theme of inequality.

What is Harrison Bergeron?

100

A boy must retrieve his poetry from a grave mistake.

What is The Wrong Grave?

200

A short story that has a moral or teaches a lesson.

What is fable?

200

Series of events in a story; each stage has a specific purpose that moves the story forward.

What is plot development: what?

200

Referring to the text to support your answer.

What is citing evidence?

200

Theme of traditions and conformity.

What is The Lottery?

200

A literary device in which a writer gives and advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

What is foreshadowing?

300

A story that is very difficult to believe and often greatly exaggerated.

What is a tall tale?

300

Find details that led to your thoughts on the question.

What is citing evidence: how?

300

A method of constructed response to be sure your point gets across clearly and effectively.

What is RACES?

300

Theme of trying to improve the human race.

What is Flowers for Algernon?

300

Less than 20,000 words, limited characters, setting, and time.

What is a short story?

400

The portrayal of fictional or nonfictional events through the performance of written dialog.

What is drama?

400

Select a specific section of dialogue, description, or actions.

What is character development: how?

400

Expand on your answer and citation to clarify your point to the reader.

What is explain?

400

Themes of friendship, loyalty, and trust.

What is After Twenty Years?

400

A little boy must learn to find his own way of doing things.

What is La Luna?

500

A work of imaginative fiction dependent for effect on strangeness of setting (such as other worlds or times) and of characters (such as supernatural or unnatural beings).

What is fantasy?

500

Write a sentence identifying what the author wants the reader to understand about the topic.

What is theme: how?

500

To text or to life.

What is significance?

500

Themes of regret and loss.

What is The Wrong Grave?

500

A story told through letters of some kind.

What is an epistolary?