Genres of Non-fiction
Genres of Fiction
Academic words
Something something British
Something something American
100

Typically, you would read one of these in The Guardian.

What is an (newspaper) article?

100

It is usually written in verse

What is poetry?

100

A 5-sided analysis model (Bonus)

What is the rhetorical pentagram?

100

The British word for a truck

What is a lorry?

100

He used to fire people on TV.

Who is President Trump?

200

One-way communication which seeks to control your political views and behaviour. 

What is propaganda?

200

A third-person narrator who knows what everyone thinks and does. 

What is an omniscient narrator? 

200

Giving animals, gods, or objects human qualities. 

What is a personification or an anthropomorphism? 

200

A language used by people to communicate who do not have a shared first language. (The conversation is devoid of grammar, culture and historic understanding.)

What is a lingua franca? (Bonus)

200

A language used by people to communicate who do not have a shared first language. (The conversation is devoid of grammar, culture and historic understanding.)

What is a lingua franca? (Bonus)

300

This is a type of persuasive "writing" and we will probably see it a lot before the up-coming midterms

What is a (political) speech?

300

What many Danish students start by calling a novel. 

What is a short story?

300

A doctor wears his lab-coat for a TV-interview to make a convincing argument

What is an example ethos? 

300

This royal family were famous and solidified English as a European powerhouse. Bloody Mary belonged to this family. 

Who are the Tudors (Henry VII and Elizabeth I)

300

The right to bear arms are protected by this federal law.

What is the 2nd amendment?

400

A video depiction of reality often for educational purposes. 

What is a documentary?

400

1984 by George Orwell is a great representation of this sub-genre

What is a dystopia? 

400

a group of words in a fixed order that has a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own

What is an idiom?

400

The longest sitting British regent.

Who is Elizabeth II?

400

The date of the US independence? 

What is the fourth of July, 1776?

500

A piece of text (broadly speaking) used to convey a message to a very broad audience. The message is often simple and can be used to prompt outrage among their audience. 

What is a post on social media?

500

A type of poetry that consist of 14 lines of verse that is typically attributed to Shakespeare. 

What is a Shakespearean sonnet? 

500

Words that portray their own sound, like Bang, splash, boing, boom, clang, crack, crackle, tick-tock, bam, etc. 

What is onomatopoeia?

500

The name of a country which gained independence in 1947. 

What is India?

500

Who or what decides what you need to learn about the US?

What is the Ministry of Education (and magic)?