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

This story is made up and the setting is in the past.

Historical Fiction

100

In this genre, animals talk and act like people.

Fantasy or fairytale

100

This genre has many authors, passed down from generation to generation verbally

Folk tale

100

This genre teaches a moral lesson.

Fables

100
Facts about a person's life
Biography or Autobiography
200

This setting can be imaginary

Fantasy or Fairy Tale

200

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

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

200
This genre has a rhythm or a beat
Poetry
300

Settings in this genre are real with real people but normally happen in the past and often teach a lesson.

Legend

300
Characters do impossible things that could not really happen in real life (for example, fly around).
Fantasy
300
This story was originally not written down
Folk tale
300

This genre is for giving us information on a topic of study.

Non-Fiction

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.

Non-Fiction (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!

Fable

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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