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: As she was about to ring it, he arrested her hand. Sentence 2: She was going to ring the village bell to warn everyone.

SOLUTION: fiction

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Thorn smiled and clapped Adrin on the back. Sentence 2: Adrin was choking and Thorn was trying to help him.

SOLUTION: fiction

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: But since the fault is only theirs, may no ill dreams follow you beyond Lethe!"  The knife started down, just as Nema managed to break free. Sentence 2: Nema escaped at the moment the knife began to descend.

SOLUTION:
fiction