When you speak about genres in literature, genre means a category, a type, or kind of story'

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Genres in Literature

• When you speak about genres in literature, genre
  means a category, a type, or kind of story.

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Nonfiction and Fiction can be written in these
forms

• Narrative A story or an account of events
• Prose The ordinary form of spoken or written
  language, without metrical structure like poetry
• Poetry A piece of literature written in meter
  verse.
• Short story A short narrative, having few
  characters and usually under 10,000 words.
• Novel A fictional prose narrative of
  considerable length, typically having a plot that
  is unfolded by the actions, speech, and thoughts
  of the characters (chapter book)
• Play A literary work written for performance on
  the stage a drama

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Genre
There are many categories of stories and books
Here are some of the common ones
Mystery/ Adventure Autobiographies Personal
Recollection Fairy Tales Myths Photobiographies Le
gends Biographies Graphic Novels Humor
How to books Color books News articles
Editorials Folktales Tall Tales Animal
books Poetry Romantic Fiction
Alphabet books Fables Arts and Craft books
Realistic Fiction Historical Fiction Science
Fiction Diary Fantasy
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All categories of books or stories can be called
either fiction or non-fiction.

• Fiction
• a made up story
• can tell about things that could happen
• is read for fun
• characters may be like real people or imaginary
• Represented in short stories, novels, folk
  literature and plays

• Non-Fiction
• has facts that can be checked and proven
• the author is an expert on this information
• it IS TRUE!
• Found in short stories, novels, essays, articles
  and plays

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Nonfiction

• Informational Articles (Not editorials)
• Biographies
• Autobiographies
• Photobiographies
• Diary
• Personal Recollection
• Essays

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Informational Articles

• Tells facts that can be looked-up or proven
• tells about real events
• characters have really lived
• may have maps, diagrams and illustrations to
  explain the facts
• author is an expert on the subject

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Biographies

• A written account of another person's life

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Autobiography,Personal Recollection and Essays

• The story of a person's life written by himself/
  herself

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Photobiographies

• An account of a person's life told with pictures

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Diary

• True Accounts written in daily entries

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Fiction

• Historical Fiction
• Realistic Fiction
• Mystery/ Adventure/ Horror
• Science Fiction
• Fantasy
• Folk Literature

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Historical Fiction
A made up story with real historical events woven
through
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Realistic fiction

• can be based on a real story
• characters act like real people
• story could happen in real life
• characters feelings and behaviors are like real
  life

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Mystery/ Adventure/ Horror

• Mystery
• The character solves a puzzle involving clues is
  a "sleuth" or detective
• Adventure
• The character encounters dangers while solving a
  conflict
• Horror
• Scary! Usually involves monsters or other scary
  creatures

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Science Fiction

• Stories involving technology and the future

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Fantasy

• Animal characters may act like people
• Involves magical creatures and fantasy plots,
  usually not as scary as Horror.
• Characters may have special powers
• Characters may be imaginary beings
• Setting may be in another time or world (future)
• Usually has a good vs. evil conflict
• May use scientific principles not yet available
  or discovered

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Poetry

• Page format may look different than other books
• May have rhythm (beat)
• May rhyme
• Imaginative and creative
• Uses describing or exciting words
• May tell a story in verse

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Folk Literature (Folktales)

• Tells about the great deeds of a person who may
  have lived
• May exaggerate a persons bravery or powers
• Probably a long ago setting
• Story may be considered a part of the history and
  culture of a group of people
• Magic may be used to solve a problem
• A lesson can be learned from the story

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Types of Folk Literature

• Fairy Tale A story, usually for children,
• about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies,
• or other magical creatures
• Tall Tale An exaggerated story
• Myth A traditional, ancient story dealing with
  supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes
• Legend A non-historical or unverifiable story
  handed down by tradition from earlier times and
  popularly accepted as history
• Fable A story that teaches a lesson and usually
  has animal characters that
• speak and act like humans