A text runs down the page in short lines that break well before the right margin, grouped into stanzas with a blank line between them, and with no paragraph indents anywhere. What form is it?

A printed text has the heading "SCENE I. Verona. A public place.", then the direction "Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers", then speeches headed SAMPSON and GREGORY. What form is it?

A book of prose fiction runs 380 pages across 42 numbered chapters and follows one family over three generations, carrying two further storylines alongside the main one. What form is it?

A piece of prose fiction runs eleven pages, keeps to one kitchen on one evening, has three characters, and turns on a single argument that is settled in the last paragraph. What form is it?

A magazine prints a titled piece of continuous prose in which the writer argues in her own voice that her town should keep its bus route. There are no characters, no scenes and no dialogue. What form is it?

A printed text opens "Ladies and gentlemen," thanks three people who are sitting in the room, says "as you can see behind me," and ends by asking everyone present to stand. What form is it?

A verse text has lines that break before the right margin, is divided into numbered parts, uses figurative language, and heads each speech with a character's name. Which feature shows it is a drama rather than a poem?

A work of prose fiction is published on its own at about 100 pages, follows a single storyline with no subplots, and is much longer than the stories in a magazine but far shorter than most novels. What form is it?

At eighty, a retired judge writes the story of her whole life in her own voice, in order: her birth, her childhood, her training, her years on the bench, and her retirement. What form is this?

A historian writes the life of a president who died a century before she was born, working from his letters and diaries and calling him "he" throughout. What form is this?

In her own voice, a chef writes only about the three years she spent rebuilding her restaurant after a fire. Her childhood, her training and everything since are left out. What form is this?

Dickens's A Christmas Carol is prose fiction, published on its own in five parts he called staves, and it follows one man through a single night. Which form does that length and single storyline make it?

O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" runs a few pages, follows Della and Jim through one Christmas Eve, and was collected with many other stories in The Four Million. What form is it?

A newspaper prints a signed piece that reports what the city council decided about the fire station, quotes four people who spoke, and keeps the writer's own opinion out of it. What form is this?

Lincoln stood on the battlefield at Gettysburg in 1863 and delivered "Four score and seven years ago..." to the crowd in front of him; the text was printed afterward. What form is it?

A play has no narrator anywhere in it. What does that force the playwright to do?

A novella and a novel tell the story of the same family. What does the novella's shorter length force the writer to do?

A speech is heard once, in real time, by an audience that cannot go back and reread a sentence it missed. What does that force the writer to do?

A poem is set in lines whose endings the poet chooses. What does that give the poet that a prose paragraph does not?

A memoir covers only part of a life rather than all of it. What does that shape force the writer to do?

What does a novel's length make possible that a short story's does not?

A writer wants to tell, in her own voice, the story of the year she spent caring for her grandmother, for readers who have never met either of them. Which form fits?

A student has to honor a classmate tomorrow morning, in about four minutes, in front of the whole school. Which form fits?

A writer wants to argue in her own voice, in about five pages, that her state should lower the driving age, for the readers of a magazine. Which form fits?

A writer wants to invent one tense encounter between two strangers waiting at a bus stop, and wants a reader to finish it in a single sitting. Which form fits?

A theater company wants a story its six actors can perform onstage, told entirely through what the characters say and do. Which form fits?

Which statement about a memoir is FALSE?

Which statement about a drama is FALSE?

Which statement about a speech is FALSE?

Which statement about a short story is FALSE?