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- Poetry
- Prose
- Biography
- Essay
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Correct answer: A. Poetry
Poems are arranged in lines and verses, while prose runs on in paragraphs.
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Which kind of writing is usually set in lines and verses rather than in paragraphs?Read the answer and worked solution →A writer prepares a script made mostly of talk between characters, to be acted on a stage. What is this work called?Read the answer and worked solution →Meena reads a book that tells one long made-up story, written in prose. Which type of book is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these books is non-fiction, because it tells the true story of a real person's life?Read the answer and worked solution →Which type of book tells its story with artwork, dialogue and text together?Read the answer and worked solution →Long before writing existed, people passed stories on by speaking and singing. What is such literature called?Read the answer and worked solution →Which old Sanskrit collection of stories is known for fables that carry a hidden moral lesson?Read the answer and worked solution →Which ancient texts mark the beginning of Sanskrit literature?Read the answer and worked solution →Which country is called the origin of modern paper making and woodblock printing?Read the answer and worked solution →Who invented movable type in Europe around the year 1450, making books cheaper?Read the answer and worked solution →Before printing was invented, how were copies of a book usually made?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the main effect of Gutenberg's printing invention on books?Read the answer and worked solution →In which country did the history of newspaper publishing begin in the year 1609?Read the answer and worked solution →The English word literature comes from a Latin word meaning what?Read the answer and worked solution →The literature of which two ancient civilisations is considered the oldest in the world?Read the answer and worked solution →Around 4000 BC traders in Mesopotamia had too many records to remember. What did they begin to rely on?Read the answer and worked solution →A story is 25,000 words long. A publisher calls works of 17,000 to 40,000 words by which name?Read the answer and worked solution →What do we call a play that is written mainly to be read rather than performed?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Chinese inventor made movable type from earthenware around the year 1045?Read the answer and worked solution →Which holy book helped unify and standardise the Arabic language?Read the answer and worked solution →The line "Sally sells seashells" repeats the starting sound of its words. What is this poetic device called?Read the answer and worked solution →Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1831) is a famous novel told in which form?Read the answer and worked solution →Which language was the lingua franca among literate Europeans until quite recent times?Read the answer and worked solution →What do we call the art of public speaking, once treated as a literary art?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of literature is created only on and for digital devices?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the name of the Hebrew religious text that is a source of Christianity's Bible?Read the answer and worked solution →Which heroic poem comes from the Anglo-Saxons of early England?Read the answer and worked solution →The English word alphabet is built from the first two letters of which language's alphabet?Read the answer and worked solution →In the Phoenician alphabet, the first letter aleph was also the word for which animal?Read the answer and worked solution →Which alphabet was the first to give vowels their own separate letters?Read the answer and worked solution →
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A writer prepares a script made mostly of talk between characters, to be acted on a stage. What is this work called?
- A diary
- A play
- A biography
- A fable
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Correct answer: B. A play
A play is a written dramatic work made chiefly of dialogue and meant for performance in a theatre.
Meena reads a book that tells one long made-up story, written in prose. Which type of book is it?
- Dictionary
- Biography
- Novel
- Newspaper
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Correct answer: C. Novel
A novel is a long fictional narrative, usually written in prose.
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