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Literary GenresFiction & Non-Fiction
Fiction (Narrative)• Prose writing that tells about imaginary
characters and events. Short stories and novels are works of fiction.
Non-fiction
NON-FICTION (EXPOSITORY)
• Is prose writing that presents and explains ideas or that tells about real people, places, objects, or events. Autobiographies, biographies, essays, reports, letters, memos, and newspaper articles are some the types of non-fiction.
fiction
Fiction (Narrative)• Drama• Fable• Fairy Tale• Fantasy• Folklore• Historical Fiction• Horror• Humor
• Legend• Mystery• Mythology• Poetry• Realistic Fiction• Science Fiction• Short Story• Tall Tale
Non-fiction
DRAMA• Like a novel or a short story, a drama tells
a story and includes such elements as character, setting, plot, and theme. It is written to be performed. The written form is called a script and the author is called a playwright.
FABLE• are stories that feature animals that speak
and act like humans. Fables teach morals, or lessons about how to live.
FAIRY TALE• A folktale that usually includes magical
elements.
FANTASY• Highly imaginative fiction that uses strange
or unusual characters, setting or plot. It contains elements not found in real life.
FOLKLORE• Also known as folk tales; these are stories
about ordinary people. Like myths, these stories reveal the traditions and values of a culture.
• These are passed down by word of mouth (there are an oral tradition)
HISTORICAL FICTION• a fictional story set in the past.
HORROR• Fiction in which events evoke a feeling of
dread in both the characters and the reader.
HUMOR• is writing that is meant to evoke laughter.
LEGEND• Are stories that are believed to be based
on real-life events and feature larger-than-life people.
MYSTERY• Fiction that includes secrets or crimes to
be solved.
MYTHOLOGY• Are anonymous stories involving gods and
goddesses. They stress cultural ideals or explain natural occurrences.
POETRY• Verse and rhythmic writing with imagery
that creates emotional responses.
REALISTIC FICTION• Story that can actually happen and is true
to real life. Set in present time.
SCIENCE FICTION• Story based on impact of actual, imagined,
or potential science or technology, usually set in the future or on other planets.
SHORT STORY• Brief work of fiction. Like a novel, it has a
sequence of events, or plot.
TALL TALE• A folktale that is usually humorous and
usually assumed to be untrue. It includes characters doing impossible things and includes exaggerations.
NON-FICTION (EXPOSITORY)
• Autobiography• Biography• Informational
fiction
AUTOBIOGRAPHY• Is a form of nonfiction in which a person
tells his or her own life story. It can tell about the whole life or part of the person’s life.
BIOGRAPHY• Is a form of nonfiction in which a writer
tells the life story of another person. Most are about famous historical and contemporary people.
INFORMATIONAL• Nonfiction writing about a topics, including
books and newspaper of magazine articles. What else might it include?
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