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:  Something exploded in the village, a sealed house or a barn, sending a pillar of green fire into the night air. Sentence 2: An explosion was set on purpose in the village.

SOLUTION: fiction

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: It's perfectly sweet of you, she said, "but you know you don't want to!" Sentence 2: It's nice of you, but I know you don't want to. 

SOLUTION: fiction

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: we almost forgot our subject of the day there but be sure and stop at one of those Texas bureaus tourist bureaus and get their literature Sentence 2: There is no help for tourists in Texas.

SOLUTION:
telephone