Year 7 Fiction Genre Battle of the Books

A story within a story is know as a ...?

• Personification

• Palindrome

• Phobia

• Mise en abyme

Answer explanation

In the fantasy story, His name was Walter, the author used this literary device, two different fonts, to distinguish between the fantasy story and the modern day story.

All fiction genre include stories about animals that can talk like human beings.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

False as not all fiction genre books have fantasy or imaginary creatures. Fantasy and science fiction genres could include stories about creatures that talk like human beings. The faun in the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe is an example of a fantasy creature. A mystery story might not have animals that talk in this genre.

Which of the following fiction genre best matches a story about a teenage detective who likes to solve crimes?

• Fantasy

• Mystery

• Adventure

• Realism

Answer explanation

Detective stories are usually classified as the mystery genre because the sleuth, as well as the reader, finds clues to solve a crime.

The fantasy genre would not include one of the following characters ...

• An ogre

• A super hedgehog

• A talking feral fox

• A famous sports star

Answer explanation

A famous sport person would be in the non-fiction biography genre or realism fiction, if he or she was a made-up character.

This is an example of a palindrome: Step on no pets

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Stanley Yelnats is also an example of a palindrome in the realism fiction story about this character.

In the story about Stanley Yelnats the boys are frightened of which creatures that live in the holes?

• Cats

• Scorpions

• Lizards

• Spiders

Answer explanation

Yellow spotted lizards might have been poisonous and so the boys were frightened of them.

Which fiction genre would not include a story about children who escaped from a Nazi concentration camp?

• Realism

• Fantasy

• Adventure

• Historical

Answer explanation

Fantasy fiction is least likely to be about the historical stories of the Nazi concentration camps in World War II.

Which of the following adventure stories is not a title written by Bear Grylls?

• The blizzard challenge

• The jungle challenge

• Mission Typhoon

• The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Answer explanation

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain , who also wrote the classic story of Tom Sawyer.

C.S. Lewis was most well known for which series of stories?

• Percy Jackson

• Left behind

• The Chronicles of Narnia

• Redwall

Answer explanation

CS Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia of which The Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe was one title in the series.

Rick Riordan is the author of the Percy Jackson series.

Tim LaHaye wrote the Left behind series.

Brain Jacques wrote the Redwall series.

A story about an imaginary world in a bubble is most likely the ........ genre?

• Steampunk

• Realism

• Historical

• Fantasy

Answer explanation

I wonder what bubble world you could imagine and write about one day?