Unit 2 - Lesson 3

Question 1

The summary lead answers the most important Ws depending on which of the Ws is the most prominent among them

Answer 1

Straight news story

Question 2

These should not be confused with feature articles (feature) which are sometimes called special features and printed in the features sections of the newspaper or in magazines

Answer 2

News feature story

Question 3

This is a narrative involving not merely simple facts but dramatic actions - incidents, descriptions or persons, perhaps testimonies of witnesses, as well as explanatory data

Answer 3

Action story

Question 4

This is a plain exposition of a simple situation or of a series of closely related events that conform to the inverted pyramid design more closely than any other kind of news

Answer 4

Fact story

Question 5

The arrangement of a speech report, a quote story, and an interview are, to a greater extent, similar. The quote story may be charted following summary, quote, summary quote, summary arrangement

Answer 5

Speech report, quote, and interview stories

Question 6

A traditional news writing orm in which the key points of a story are put in the opening paragraph, and the news is stacked in the following paragraphs in order of descending importance

Answer 6

Inverted pyramid style

Question 7

These are also called breaking news stories, usually follow a standard formula for writing called the inverted pyramid

Answer 7

Spot news story outline

Question 8

a style of writing in which the major news of a story is reported in the first few paragraphs and then a transitional paragraph introduces a chronology of the events of the story

Answer 8

Hourglass style