Fiction texts are based in facts, real people and real events.

QUESTION 1       Fiction texts are based in facts, real people and real events.

  True

  False

QUESTION 2       Which of these statements describe strategies for crafting effective summaries?

A.            Avoid including your own opinion and interpretation of the text.

B.            Identify thesis or main idea of the text

C.            Describe the text in your own words.

D.            Ensure that your summary is as long as the original text.

E.            All of the above

F.            A, B and C only

QUESTION 3       Is “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood a fiction or non-fiction text?

This is a fiction short story that makes use of ingenious narrative structure in the presentation of different messages. The author focuses on the provision of the audience with an addictive wave of emotional rush that helps in the enhancement of wisdom or couples. The story is not based on any facts as it helps in the provision of imaginative waves that one sees as a person. The authors use her ideas as a person in the presentation of an ideal kind of romance that could be there. The story is considered to be fiction because it does not present any factual information such as data or information on the case studies collected from the past.

QUESTION 4       From the summary examples you have read, the first sentence of a summary should contain:

A.            The title of the text

B.            The author’s name

C.            A direct quote from the text.

D.            A general statement articulating the main idea of the text.

QUESTION 5       An effective summary condenses a longer passage of writing into a much shorter form, communicating only the essential facts of the original.

  True

  False