TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Loosening his hold of me, he mechanically straightened a pair of candlesticks, still murmuring to himself: "Yes, that alters everything ”everything." Suddenly he seemed to come to a decision.  Sentence 2: There are 2 straightened candlesticks. 

SOLUTION: fiction

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: William Bennett (NBC's Meet the Press ) contributes the overstatement of the weekend when he fuses the Chinese money story with the Indian  Did the [Democrats'] frantic pursuit of money lead to the endangerment of the world through nuclear weapons? Sentence 2: William Bennett has been on NBC's Meet the Press for five years.

SOLUTION: slate

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: You have chosen the one point that to my mind tells against him." Sentence 2: You made a point that is against, you fool.

SOLUTION:
fiction