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Genres of Literature
  • Vista Murrieta High School Library
  • Mrs. Jacobs
  • Library Media Teacher

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Click on a book cover and you will go to the page
that describes that specific genre.
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Adventure Story
  • Usually includes suspense, excitement, physical
    danger, travel to exotic settings, and an
    intrepid hero/heroine.
  • Relies on a series of exciting episodes unified
    by a theme of a search for a lost person, place
    or object.
  • Example Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure
    Island
  • Genres of Fiction (back)

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Autobiography
  • The story of a persons life written by him or
    herself.
  • Includes memoirs, diaries, and letters.
  • Example Ben Franklins Autobiography
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Biography
  • Coming of Age A sociological term for the
    movement of an individual from childhood to
    adolescence to adulthood.
  • Stories that reflect a childs passage from
    innocence to knowledge.
  • Child usually pays the price of pain and
    disillusionment.
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Diary
  • A daily account of events recorded by an
    individual, usually personal in nature.
  • Synonymous with term of Journal
  • Example Anne Franks Diary of A Young Girl
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Drama
  • Any work in which actors assume roles before an
    audience, either in a theatre or on radio or
    television.
  • Examples
  • Shakespearean Plays
  • Arthur Millers The Crucible

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Fable
  • A short narrative in which the action of the
    characters, usually animals, conveys a moral
    lesson.
  • Example George Orwells
  • Animal Farm

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Fairy Tale
  • A form of Childrens Literature
  • Consists of short, fanciful stories that feature
    witches, dragons, wicked stepmothers and fairy
    godmothers.
  • Rooted in oral tradition and folk literature
  • Examples Brothers Grimm in Germany and Hans
    Christian Anderson in Denmark
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Fantasy
  • Characterized by highly imaginative or
    supernatural events.
  • Example J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the Ring
    Trilogy and James Barries Peter Pan
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Historical Fiction
  • A significant historical event or era serves as
    the backdrop to a story that include fictional or
    historical characters or a mix of both
  • Examples
  • Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind
  • Toni Morrisons Beloved
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Horror
  • Term used to describe literature with an emphasis
    on the macabre and the supernatural.
  • The success of the horror novel lies in the
    thrill of fear
  • Examples Stephen King and Dean Koontz
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Mystery
  • A crime or a series of crimes is solved by a
    detective, either an amateur or a Private-eye.
  • Basic formula murder or disappearance that
    leads to additional murders a cluster of
    baffling clues, a number of plausible suspects,
    and a detective who employs logic to solve the
    crime
  • Example Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock
    Holmes
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Romance
  • A narrative featuring adventures in exotic
    places, love stories, and or the celebration of
    simple rustic life.
  • Example L.M. Montgomerys Anne of Green Gables
    series
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Science Fiction
  • Based on future possibilities, derived from
    scientific discoveries such as
  • Interstellar travel
  • Aftermath of nuclear war and environmental
    disasters
  • Altered states of consciousness
  • Extraterrestrial visitors to earth
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Example H.G. Wells Time Machine
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Short Story
  • A fictional narrative, the length of which
    varies, but rarely exceeds 2000 words
  • Genres of Fiction - back

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Tragedy
  • Depicts the downfall of the leading character
    whose life, its disastrous end notwithstanding,
    represents something significant
  • Greece was the site of the great analysis of
    tragedy.
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Western
  • Fictional accounts of life on the American
    Western frontier
  • Focus on the adventures of a cowboy hero
  • Combines action and romance
  • Hero typically a man with a personal code of
    behavior and strong attachment to the outdoors
  • Examples Zane Grey and Louis LAmour
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Genres
  • Books can be in more than one genre
  • A book can be a Classic piece of literature that
    is Science Fiction
  • Broaden your Reading, try books in several
    different genres
  • Start with similar genres Science Fiction and
    Fantasy, or Horror and Mystery, or Adventure and
    Western genres
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