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Nonfiction Genres, Structures, And Features
Test Description: Nonfiction genres, structures, and text features.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) The ________ is the most important thing about the topic of a text.
A
detail
B
main idea / central idea
C
summary
D
inference
2) Shortening the big ideas of a text is known as ______________.
A
finding the topic
B
summarizing
C
quoting
D
paraphrasing
3) Which is NOT an author's purpose for writing?
A
to entertain
B
to inform
C
to persuade
D
to locate
4) Which genre is a nonfiction text that gives the history of a person's life?
A
autobiography
B
memoir
C
essay
D
biography
5) Which genre is a nonfiction text that gives the history of the author's life?
A
memoir
B
biography
C
essay
D
autobiography
6) Which genre is a nonfiction text that is a recorded conversation between two or more people or groups?
A
periodical
B
conversation
C
interview
D
recording
7) Which genre is published at regular intervals (daily, weekly, etc.) that contains news and feature articles?
A
periodical
B
newspaper
C
journal
D
magazine
8) Which genre is a short, nonfiction text that is about one of the author's own life experiences?
A
memoir
B
autobiography
C
essay
D
appendix
9) Which genre lists words and their definitions in alphabetical order?
A
thesaurus
B
dictionary
C
atlas
D
glossary
10) Which genre lists words and their synonyms in alphabetical order?
A
table of contents
B
glossary
C
thesaurus
D
dictionary
11) Which genre lists short articles about different topics in ABC order?
A
dictionary
B
periodical
C
essay
D
encyclopedia
12) Which genre is a short nonfiction text about a specific subject or topic?
A
magazine
B
memoir
C
essay
D
autobiography
13) Which text feature would you use to find every page that describes Ben Franklin?
A
glossary
B
appendix
C
table of contents
D
index
14) Which text feature would you use to find the title of section 3 in your language textbook?
A
table of contents
B
index
C
appendix
D
glossary
15) Which text feature would you use to look up a word's definition?
A
sidebar
B
thesaurus
C
glossary
D
dictionary
16) What text feature describes a picture?
A
italics
B
caption
C
font
D
enlargement
17) Which text feature shows and labels the different parts of something?
A
map
B
diagram
C
cross-section
D
sidebar
18) Which text structure uses words like both, but, also, on the other hand
A
cause and effect
B
argument
C
compare and contrast
D
description
19) Which text structure uses words such as first, next, then, last, finally, now
A
cause and effect
B
persuasive
C
sequence
D
problem and solution
20) Which text structure uses words like good, should, need, deserve, feel, believe
A
cause and effect
B
description
C
fact and opinion
D
compare and contrast
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