Fiction
Non-Fiction
Genres
sub-genres
Triple the points
100

The FICTION sub genre that has a lot of action, danger, and excitement.

Adventure

100

Which genre includes texts that are based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history?  These texts teach us. You can read these texts in any order.

NONFICTION

100

What is a genre?

A group or collection of books with a similar theme or style- certain category or type of text

100

Name at least 6 FICTION sub genres

MYSTERY, SCIENCE FICTION. REALISTIC FICTION,

COMEDY, FANTASY, SPORTS, HISTORICAL FICTION

ADVENTURE, FOLK TALES, FAIRY TALES, MYTHS

HORROR, LEGENDS, TALL TALES, FABLES

ROMANCE

100

Informational text means?

NONFICTION TEXTS THAT HAVE ACTUAL INFORMATION IN THEM. TEXTS THAT TEACH US ABOUT A TOPIC.

200

What is the genre that has characters, setting, and plot. These texts tell a story and you must read it in in order from beginning, middle to end?

FICTION

200

Name at least 4 NONFICTION sub genres

Biography,  Autobiography, Recipes, Advertisements, Magazines, catalogues,  Informational Writing, text books

200

Which genre is the sub-genre horror in?

FICTION

200

Which sub genre brings the reader into the story by presenting the reader with a puzzle or a problem that needs to be solved?   The author keeps the reader in suspense and there are clues to follow along the way.

MYSTERY

200

Which sub genre tells stories about space, technology, science, and the future?

SCIENCE FICTION

300

Fantasy, comedy, horror, adventure, romance, Realistic, and Historical are all sub genres of what BIG GENRE?

FICTION 

300

What is the sub genre that has magic and superpowers and has events in the story that could NEVER happen in real life?

FASNTASY

300

Which sub genre tells a story that has characters, setting and plot, but is based on something that actually happened in the past or in history.  It's a made up story but can have factual bits of information and real events that have happened in history?

HISTORICAL FICTION

300

The "I Survived" series falls into which sub genre?

Historical Fiction

300

What type of writing or text has a special intensity and the expression of feelings.  It sometimes rhymes and has stanzas instead of paragraphs?

POETRY

400

The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series falls into what sub genre?

HUMOR, COMEDY

400

Which type of book is written about a person's LIFE but it is written by someone else?

A Biography

400

"Who is Walt Disney?" is a book that falls into what genre and sub genre

NONFICTION/BIOGRAPHY

400

Drama is considered what type of writing or text?

A Play

400

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, the Junie B Jones Series, and Thank You Mr. Falker are all examples of which type of fiction?

REALISTIC FICTION

500

What is the sub genre that has characters, setting and plot and tells a story that could actually happen in real life?

Realistic Fiction

500

A book that tells the reader all about the human body would be considered which genre/sub genre?

NONFICTION/INFORMATIONAL TEXT

500

This sub genre tells most of its story through vivid and colorful pictures but does include not a whole lot of text or words.  The words are in the form of speech bubbles.

GRAPHIC NOVEL or Comic 

500

A story written about a person's life that is actually written by the person who the story is about.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

500

Myths, Tall Tales, Fables, Fairy Tales, and Legends are all considered what kind of Fiction?

FOLKTALES

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