What was the genre of the stories that Gabriel García Márquez wrote?
biography
historical fiction
science fiction
magical realism
How does this text describe García Márquez’s writing?
It describes his writing as mostly realistic.
It describes his writing as combining the real with the fantastic.
It describes his writing as difficult to read.
It describes his writing as completely magical.
Read these sentences from the text.
"Like all fiction, [magical realism] does not tell stories that happened in real life. Instead, this genre mixes realistic stories with fantasy."
What might the word “fantasy” mean based on these sentences?
something that is very much like real life
something that is made-up or imagined
something that describes a person
something that is based on history
What is an example of something fantastic or magical that García Márquez included in his stories?
The setting of a book is in a fictional town like where García Márquez grew up.
The main character in one book was a colonel in the army.
In one of his books, tiny yellow flowers rain down from the sky.
Many of García Márquez’s stories are set during a violent time.
What is the main if the idea of the text?
The author Gabriel García Márquez combined pieces of real life with fantasy to create stories in the genre of magical realism.
One of the first authors to bring magical realism to a huge audience was an author from Colombia named Gabriel García Márquez.
Magical realism is a genre of fiction writing in which realistic stories are combined with fantasy.
Some of Gabriel García Márquez's books are inspired by the history of Latin America and a violent time that happened in Colombia.
