Genre as a Set of Expectations · seed 1 · A4, ink-friendly. The answer key prints on its own page for grown-ups.

Reading with genre glasses on

English · Reading Comprehension · ages 17-18
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. A writer sets up a promise, then breaks it halfway. What can that break do?

    • Nothing, because rules are fixed
    • Surprise you, build tension, or comfort you
    • Delete the earlier chapters

  2. What is a genre, seen from the reader side?

    • The set of promises a reader brings to a text
    • The number of pages in the book
    • The price printed on the cover

  3. The moment a story swerves from its promises is usually worth a slow reread.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. You found a passage that refuses a genre convention. How do you show it well?

    • Name the convention, quote the passage, explain the effect
    • Hide the passage so nobody checks
    • Summarise the whole book instead

  5. Two openings use similar sentences, but one feels like horror and the other like romance. What tells them apart?

    • The font size on the page
    • The number of commas
    • Tone, word choice, and rhythm

  6. Reading a text in two genres at once can only confuse you.

    Circle one:   True   False

  7. An essay calls a story science fiction but never quotes it. What is missing?

    • More adjectives about the future
    • Evidence: the expectation stated and the passage that meets or breaks it
    • A longer title for the essay

  8. A detective opening slowly turns into a love story. What is the sharpest reading?

    • The writer forgot the plot entirely
    • The writer borrows crime promises, then refuses them for romance effects
    • The cover was printed wrong
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Answer key

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  1. Surprise you, build tension, or comfort you · Meeting comforts, delaying builds tension, refusing surprises.
  2. The set of promises a reader brings to a text · Genre is the starting guess about what kind of story this will be.
  3. True · The swerve is where the meaning usually lives.
  4. Name the convention, quote the passage, explain the effect · Convention plus quotation plus effect is the complete move.
  5. Tone, word choice, and rhythm · Tone hums differently under each genre, and word choice carries it.
  6. False · Each lens reveals what the other misses, so doubling up gains insight.
  7. Evidence: the expectation stated and the passage that meets or breaks it · A genre claim must point at words on the page.
  8. The writer borrows crime promises, then refuses them for romance effects · Name which promises it keeps and which it trades away.
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