1. FICTION GENRES
By: Lexi Nicholas

2. Poetry
A literary work that uses concise, colorful, often rhythmic language to express ideas or emotions.
Examples: ballad, blank verse, free verse, limerick, sonnet.

3. PROSE
A literary work that uses the familiar spoken form of language, sentence after sentence.

4. Fairy Tales
Literary genre that is a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures

5. Fantasy Literary genre that is an imaginative or fanciful work
Usually dealing with supernatural or unnatural events or characters

6. Tall Tales
Literary genre that is an extravagantly and humorously exaggerated story of the backwoods exploits of an American frontiersman

7. Folk Tales
Literary genre that is a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially forming part of the oral tradition of the common people
Any belief or story passed on traditionally, especially one considered to be false or based on superstition

8. Fable
Literary genre that is a brief, allegorical, narrative, in verse or prose, illustrating a moral thesis or satirizing human beings
The characters of a fable are usually animals who talk and act like people while retaining their animal traits

9. Adventure
Literary genre pertaining to an exciting or very unusual experience, participation in exciting undertakings or enterprises, a bold, usually risky undertaking, or hazardous action of uncertain outcome

10. Myth
A traditional story intended to explain some mystery of nature, religious doctrine, or cultural belief
The gods and godesses of mythology have supernatural powers, but human characters usually do not

11. Mystery
Literary genre whose plot involves a crime or other event that remains unsettled until the very end

12. Drama Also called a play
This writing form uses dialogue to share its message and is meant to be performed in front of an audience

13. Historical
Literary genre pertaining to or characteristic of history or past events
Based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, or style, in the past or having once existed or lived in the real world, as opposed to being part of legend of fiction or as distinguished from religious belief

14. Novel A book-length, fictional prose story
Because of its length, a novel’s characters and plot are usually more developed than those of a short story

15. Short Story
Shorter than a novel, this piece of literature can usually be read in one sitting
Because of its length, it has only a few characters and focuses on one problem of conflict

16. Science Fiction
Literary genre in which a background of science is an integral part of the story
Many of the events recounted in a science fiction story are within the realm of future possibility like robots, space travel, interplanetary war, or invasions from outer space

17. Realistic
Literary genre interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical
Pertaining to, characterized by, or given to the representation in literature or art of things as they really are

18. Comedy
Writing that deals with life in a humorous way, often poking fun at people’s mistakes

19. Nonfiction Genres Informational
Literary genre that is intended for teaching and related informational purpose
Primarily intended to educate rather than entertain
Biography
Literary genre that is a written account of another person’s life

20. Works Cited
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