Genres (JON-RA)

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Genres(JON-RA)
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What does genre mean?
Genre a category of artistic composition
So, a genre is just the category a book falls
into!!
How many genres are there?
Lets find out about some now!
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SCIENCE FICTION
HISTORICAL FICTION
POETRY
Autobiography
Informational
FANTASY
MYSTERY
BIOGRAPHY
FABLE
Traditional Literature
REALISTIC FICTION
LEGEND
FOLK TALE
TALL TALE
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NONFICTION

• FACTUAL
• RESEARCH BASED
• CAN PROVE IT!

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BIOGRAPHY

• The story of a persons life, living or not
  living.
• Shows how that person affected other people
• Call Number 921
• Alphabetical by the persons last name.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY

• The story of a persons life, living or not
  living BUT it is written by that person.
• The Life and Times
• Of
• Martha Washington
• Written by Martha Washington

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POETRY

• Words build sensory images
• Verses Plays with sounds of words and rhythms
• May or may not rhyme
• Can be on any subject
• Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky
• Call Number 811

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FICTION

• MADE UP
• NOT A TRUE STORY
• IMAGINARY
• SOMETIMES BASED ON A TRUE STORY

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Traditional Literature

• Folk Tales
• Fairy Tales
• Legends
• Tall Tales
• Fables

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FOLKTALE FAIRY TALES

• Timeless and placeless tale
• Evil and good people or animals
• Begins Once upon a time and ends happily ever
  after
• Often helped by magical creatures
• Cinderella
• Three Little Pigs
• Sleeping Beauty
• Hansel and Gretel
• Gingerbread Man
• Ugly Duckling

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LEGEND

• Characters have special traits
• Based on a fictional or real figure whose story
  has been exaggerated
• Characters perform super human deeds
• Robin Hood
• King Arthur

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TALL TALES

• Heroes are larger than life Some are made up,
  some based on real people
• Characters have exaggerated qualities. They are
  bigger, stronger, faster than the average person
  even though they seem average
• Solves problems in humorous way that is
  exaggerated beyond belief
• Paul Bunyan
• Pecos Bill

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FABLE

• Short stories
• Teach a valuable lesson
• Most characters are animals or inanimate objects
  with human feelings
• Aesop Fables

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FANTASY

• Events could not happen according to science
  today (animals talking)
• Characters may have special powers like magic,
  ability to travel where others cant , traveling
  through time
• Charlottes Web
• Dragon books
• Magic Tree House
• Percy Jackson series (Riordan)
• Gregor series (Collins)

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SCIENCE FICTION

• Story with plot based on science
• If science makes advances, the story could
  possibly happen
• Among the (series by Haddix)
• Bailey School Kids (Dadey)

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HISTORICAL FICTION

• Story is based in earlier era or time period
• May be entirely fiction or mixed with historical
  facts
• Characters are entirely fiction or based on a
  real person in history
• Out of the Dust (Hesse)
• Little House on the Prairie (Wilder)

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REALISTIC FICTION

• Fictional characters who behave in realistic
  ways.
• Seems like it could really happen
• Books by
• Andrew Clements
• Beverly Cleary

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MYSTERY

• Uncovering clues and piecing them together
• There is a definite problem that is solved by the
  end of the story.