1. Short Stories of Realistic Fiction

2. What is realistic fiction?
Realistic fiction is stories that are drawn from the writer's imagination but can also be true to life.
Although the characters are made up and the settings are not real, the events could actually happen.
Many of these stories focus on universal human problems with a character trying to find a solution to a problem that works.
It is important to remember that although the situation of the story is real, it is not based on real life events.

3. Characteristics of the Genre
Examples of real life situations
Characters are human beings
Entire page is filled with drawings or text
Story contains a lot of dialogue, conversations and descriptions.
Mostly appear in magazines or articles
Many times have a moral to the story

4. Characteristics that are NOT included in the genre…
Fantasy elements such as dragons, fairies and princes.
Stories that take place in a secondary world.
Stories with multiple chapters
True stories from real people’s lives.
Anything not told in narrative form.