What is GENRE?

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What is GENRE?

• A game to help you remember the definitions of
  literary genre.

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Review

• Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Informational
• Biography
• Autobiography

• Historical fiction
• Mystery
• Science fiction
• Realistic fiction

• Folktale

• Fairy Tale
• Tall Tale
• Fable
• Legend
• Myth

• Drama

Skits, musicals, or plays

• Poetry

Verse that uses sounds, rhythm and word choice to
convey ideas
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Twenty Questions
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1. What are the 5 main categories?

• Fiction
• Nonfiction
• Folktale
• Drama
• Poetry

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2. What is FICTION?

• Stories that use characters, settings, and plots
  to convey events that are not real

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3. What are the subgenre of FICTION?

• Realistic fiction
• Historical fiction
• Science fiction
• Mystery
• Fantasy

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4. What is NONFICTION?

• Writing that uses real people, settings, and
  plots to convey actual events

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5. What are the subgenres of NONFICTION?

• Informational
• Biography
• Autobiography

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6. What does the word folktale mean?

• An exaggerated story that has been shared over
  generations by word of mouth to convey a tradition

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7. What are the subgenres of FOLKTALE?

• Fairy tales
• Tall tales
• Fables
• Legends
• Myths

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8. What is DRAMA?

• Skits, musicals,, or plays that use language,
  song, or dance to convey messages

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9. What is POETRY?

• Verse that uses sounds, rhythm, and word choice
  to convey ideas

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10. What is fiction that is set in the past?

• Historical fiction

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11. What is folktale that is usually humorous
and usually assumed to be untrue?

• Tall tales

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12. What is nonfiction that is informational
writing about real people?

• Biography

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13. What is fiction that includes secrets or
crimes to be solved?

• Mystery

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14. What is folktale that is based on a real
person or event?

• Legends

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15. What is folktale that usually includes
magical elements?

• Fairy tales

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16. What is fiction that deals with science or
technology?

• Science fiction

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17. What is nonfiction that is a biography of a
person written by himself or herself?

• Autobiography

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18. What is folktale that is considered sacred
and that attempts to explain how things came to
be?

• Myths

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19. What is highly imaginative fiction that
uses strange or unusual characters, setting and
plot?

• Fantasy

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20. What is folktale that teaches a moral or
lesson, often including animals as characters?

• Fables

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Review

• Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Informational
• Biography
• Autobiography

• Historical fiction
• Mystery
• Science fiction
• Realistic fiction

• Folktale

• Fairy Tale
• Tall Tale
• Fable
• Legend
• Myth

• Drama

Skits, musicals, or plays

• Poetry

Verse that uses sounds, rhythm and word choice to
convey ideas