What I Know
Directions: Read each item carefully. Angiver the question and enclete the letter of the
correct answer
1. Which of the following are human interest pieces that generally focus on people, places,
and things?
News stories
B. Feature stories
C Editorial columns
D. Blog posts
2. Feature stories resemble fietional short stories in that they
A use description, sensory details, quotations, ancodotes, personification and other
story-telling devices
B. do not have to be factual
C. are based largely on the writer's imagination
D. do not have to be balanced in their treatment of controversial issues
3. Unlike straight news stories, feature stories
A. are always written in the third person
B. maybe written in the first second or third person
C. are always written in the first person
D. are never written in the second person
4. Which of the following is NOT one of the attributes of feature stories?
A. They amuse, entertain, inspire, and stimulate readers.
B. They use novelistic elements to dramatize a story's theme.
C. They usually are less timely than straight news stories.
D. They are written to a single formula,
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