Setting
This fiction genre's setting is in the past.
Historical Fiction
In this genre, animals talk and act like people.
Fantasy
This genre has many authors, passed down from generation to generation verbally (word of mouth).
Traditional Literature
This genre is written to make you laugh.
Humor
Facts about a person's life
Biography or Autobiography
This setting can be imaginary.
Fantasy, Science Fiction, or Traditional Literature
This type of genre often has made-up characters that seem real and believable.
Realistic fiction
Someone writes about his or her own life in this genre
Autobiography
This is main genre's purpose is to entertain. It uses story elements to share a made-up story.
Fiction
This genre has a rhythm or a beat
Poetry
Settings in this genre are real with real people.
Historical fiction, biography or autobiography
Characters do impossible things that could not really happen in real life (for example, fly around).
Fantasy
This story was originally not written down.
Traditional Literature
This genre is for giving us information on a topic of study.
Informational
Crime to be solved
Mystery
This setting takes place in the future!
Science Fiction
This genre has real animals and facts about them.
Informational
This main genre's purpose is to inform. It's based on facts, real events, or real people.
Nonfiction
A story that is meant to be acted out on the stage
Drama or a Play
The setting of the story doesn't really exist but it is modeled after a place that really does exist
Realistic fiction
This genre has characters that are solving problems using clues.
Mystery
The authors in this genre love to rhyme their words.
Poetry
This genre allows you to see inside a person's life from their own point of view, not someone else's.
Autobiography
This genre might include stories about aliens and UFO's, or traveling through outer space
Science Fiction