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Genre and Subgenre Test Part 2: Explain Your Answer

This document provides 15 examples of stories, articles or books and asks the reader to identify the genre and subgenre for each one. It includes a variety of fiction and nonfiction examples from different time periods and locations. The genres listed are fiction, nonfiction, and traditional, and the subgenres given include science fiction, historical fiction, realistic fiction, autobiographies, biographies, informational writing, essays, myth, fairytale, legend, tall tale and folktale. For each example, the reader is asked to choose the most appropriate genre and subgenre and explain their answer.

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Genre and Subgenre Test Part 2: Explain Your Answer

This document provides 15 examples of stories, articles or books and asks the reader to identify the genre and subgenre for each one. It includes a variety of fiction and nonfiction examples from different time periods and locations. The genres listed are fiction, nonfiction, and traditional, and the subgenres given include science fiction, historical fiction, realistic fiction, autobiographies, biographies, informational writing, essays, myth, fairytale, legend, tall tale and folktale. For each example, the reader is asked to choose the most appropriate genre and subgenre and explain their answer.

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Genre and Subgenre Test Part 2

Directions: Choose the genre and subgenre in which the story most likely belongs. Then explain
how you got your answer.
Fiction: science fiction, historical fiction, and realistic fiction
Nonfiction: autobiographies, biographies, informational writing, and essays
Traditional: myth, fairytale, legend, tall tale, and folktale

1. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne


The story of a German professor who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center
of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans climb down a crater and have many wild
adventures, encountering dinosaurs and prehistoric man. They eventually return to surface again
in southern Italy.
Genre Subgenre
Explain your answer:

2. Sleeping Beauty retold by Charles Perrault


A beautiful princess pricks her finger on a sewing needle, after being cursed by a wicked fairy.
The princess falls into a deep sleep. One hundred years later, a prince fights his way through the
enchanted forest and awakens the beautiful sleeping princess with a kiss.
Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

3. The Reign of Attila the Hun by Ed Reaves


Attila the Hun was the scourge of both the Eastern and Western Roman Empires in the 440s and
450s. . He invaded and conquered territory in what would now be considered France and Italy,
terrorizing the countryside along the way. This text tells the story of Attila's life.
Genre Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

4. No Way In by Patty Slate


High school student Darren Banks is sick of being a viewed as a nerd. Darren enlists the help of
his older cousin Tyrone to help him learn to dress, walk, and talk. With Tyrone's help, Darren
soon climbs to the peak of high school popularity, but in his quest to become someone else, will
Darren forget who he was? Find out in this exciting novel.
Genre: Subgenre:

Explain your answer


5. The Big Book of Science, Grades 5-6 by Mortini School Publishing
This science book for grades 5 and 6 puts the "fun" in "fundamental." Students complete a
variety of exercises to develop their science skills using materials that can be found at home.
This version contains over 62 practice activities.

Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

6. Bump in the Night by John Fox


Fox tells the story of the fictional John Potter, a seasoned Union soldier who gets captured by
Confederate forces during the American Civil War. Potter undergoes some of the most dreadful
conditions imaginable while detained in a Confederate POW camp, but he soon makes friends
with a Confederate guard who helps Potter survive as they realize that their differences are not as
striking as their similarities.

Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

7. Paul Bunyan and the Seven Wonders of the World retold by Patrick Schuster
This text contains a handful of different stories about the world's largest lumberjack, Paul
Bunyan, who is so big that he wrings out a handful of maple trees to make syrup for his giant
waffles. He is so big that he made the Great Lakes when he couldn't find his spittoon. Read about
how he met his giant blue ox, Babe, and how they became best friends and inseparable
companions. Also read about how he dug the Grand Canyon by dragging his axe behind himself
after a long day of work.

Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

8. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs


When John Carter finds gold in Arizona, he makes enemies with some Apache warriors. While
attempting to escape from these warriors, Carter hides in one of their sacred caves and is
mysteriously transported to Mars. He finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in
this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity. He soon falls in with a nomadic tribe of
Green Martians and thanks to his strength, speed, and fighting skills, Carter rises to a high
position in the tribe. When the Green Martians capture Dejah Thoris, princess of the humanoid
Red Martians, Carter can't help but to be taken with her beauty. He will have to make some
tough decisions in the exciting novel.

Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

9. The Reading Times published by the Mortini Group


This periodical contains strategies for teachers and students about how to improve reading
comprehension skills.

Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

10. The Silver Cross by Steve Stark


This novel tells the story of a fictional American teenager named Henry Cross. Against his
mother's wishes, Cross enlists in the fight against the Germans in World War II. At first he is
frightened and ineffective in battle, but after making friends with an elite sniper, Cross learns to
overcome his fear in battle and become a better solider. Soon Cross is a war machine, but
sometimes soldiers have to make difficult decisions concerning the lives of others. Will Cross
make the right decision when he runs into just such a situation? Is there a right choice for Cross
to make?

Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

11. African Creation Story by unknown


According to this Bakuba account of the world's creation, the Earth was once just darkness and
water and it was ruled by the giant Mbombo. One day Mbombo felt some sharp pains in his
stomach, which caused him to vomit the sun, moon, and stars. The sun's rays evaporated the
water covering the Earth, which created clouds, and soon the dry hills emerged from the water.
Still feeling some pains in his stomach, Mbombo vomited again, this time expelling the world's
first man and woman, all of the animals, the trees, falling stars, the firmament, and lighting.

Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:
12. Shooting for the Moon by Lance Legstrong
Lance tells the true story of his own adventure into outer space. Legstrong was once an
underachiever with a troubled past, until one day a teacher influences him positively. Lance
describes how he worked hard from that point on until getting accepted into an experimental
NASA space program and going to the moon. Lance shares with readers the many life lessons he
has learned in this exciting text.

Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

13. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by unknown


Sir Gawain is King Arthur's nephew, and this is the story of how Gawain met a challenge from a
giant knight dressed in all green armor. The story is very serious and is told as though it was true;
many people believe that King Arthur was a real person, but this story is probably not true. If it
were true, it has been greatly exaggerated.

Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

14. U.S. History by Mortini Publishing Group


This textbook tells the history of America, from the Revolutionary War to the Iraq War.

Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

15. The Rising by Lindsay Logan


When Sheila moves to a new school in California, she has some trouble fitting in with the other
kids. She cannot afford the expensive clothing that the other kids wear and she does not have the
newest cell phone, but she does have a good heart. Will a chance run-in with a celebrity whom
Sheila admires give Sheila the confidence she needs to adapt to her new environment.

Genre: Subgenre:
Explain your answer:

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