Question

3 fill in the blank 2 points
choose the genre that best describes this excerpt.
the sparrows disappeared from our town in the first year after the accident. they were lying around everywhere – in the yards, on the asphalt. they’d be raked up and taken away in the containers with the leaves. they didn’t let people burn the leaves that year, because they were radioactive, so they buried the leaves.
the sparrows came back two years later. we were so happy, we were calling to each other: “i saw a sparrow yesterday! they’re back.”
the may bugs also disappeared, and they haven’t come back. maybe they’ll come back in a hundred years or a thousand. that’s what our teacher says. i won’t see them.
what is this genre? choose your answer...
choose your answer...
drama
prose fiction
poetry
prose nonfiction
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Explanation:

The excerpt tells a story with fictional elements (like the context of an accident causing wildlife disappearance and return, told from a narrative perspective) in prose form (not in poetic structure). Prose nonfiction is factual, drama is script - like, and poetry has poetic devices/structure. This fits prose fiction as it’s a fictional narrative in prose.

Answer:

prose fiction