Setting
Characters
Authors
What's It For?
Tip Off!
100

This setting is in the past.

History or Historical Fiction

100

In this genre, animals talk and act like people.

Fantasy or Fiction

100
This genre has many authors, passed down from generation to generation verbally
Traditional Literature (folk tale)
100
This genre teaches a moral lesson.
Traditional Literature (fables)
100

Facts about a person's life

Biography or Autobiography

200

This setting can be imaginary

Fantasy or Fairy Tale or Fiction

200

This type of genre often has princes or princesses or magical characters

Fantasy or Fairy Tales

200
Someone writes about his or her own life in this genre
Autobiography
200

This is another way to describe a non-fiction book.

Informational or True

200
This genre has a rhythm or a beat
Poetry
300

Settings in this genre are real with real people.

Non-Fiction, Historical fiction, biography or autobiography

300

Characters do impossible things that could not really happen in real life (for example, fly around).

Science Fiction or Fantasy

300

This story depicts imagined societies that are oppressive, where the pursuit of a supposed utopia has gone horribly wrong.

Dystopian

300
This genre is for giving us information on a topic of study.
Informational
300
Crime to be solved
Mystery
400
This setting takes place in the future!
Science Fiction
400

This genre contains stories about a true national hero from the past.

History or Historical, or Non-Fiction or Informational

400

This genre's author writes about others' lives, not their own.

Biography

400

Good overcomes evil and the princess is rescued by her prince!

Fairy Tale or Fantasy

400
A story that is meant to be acted out on the stage
Drama or a Play
500
The setting of the story doesn't really exist but it is modeled after a place that really does exist
Realistic fiction
500
This genre has characters that are solving problems using clues.
Mystery
500

The authors in this genre love to rhyme their words.

Poetry

500
This genre allows you to see inside a person's life from their own point of view, not someone else's.
Autobiography
500
This genre might include stories about aliens and UFO's, or traveling through outer space
Science Fiction
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