Genre
Unique features
Examples
Definitions
Literary Elements (not genres)
100
biography
What is a story about a person's life written by another person called?
100
autobiography
What is the story of a real person's life called?
100

The Seventh Most Important Thing genre

What is realistic fiction?

100
folktales, legends, fables, fairy tales, tall tales or myths
What is traditional literature?
100

The beginning of a story where characters get introduced.

What is exposition?

200
mystery
What is a story that is made up and has a problem or crime to solve?
200
poetry
What genre can be both fiction and non-fiction?
200

lines and stanzas

What is poetry?

200
the story of a real person's life written by another person
What is a biography?
200

the time and place where a story takes place

What is setting?

300
realistic fiction
What is a story that could be real but is not?
300
fantasy
What genere has magic in it that could not happen?
300

The Landlady

What is a mystery?

300
a story that might have magic or talking animals
What is fantasy?
300

Characters act on stage and there is dialogue.

What is drama or play?

400
science fiction
What is a story about space, time travel or aliens?
400

fantasy or myths or folktales

What genre has a story that is passed down over time and that MAY use magic, teach a lesson or come from a different culture?

400
Ben and Me, The Titanic and Almost to Freedon
What is historical fiction?
400
Has verse, rhythm, and written in a special way
What is poetry?
400

a person tells the reader how he or she talks, feels, and thinks about things

What is first person point of view?

500
informational
What genre can you get information from?
500
historical fiction
What genre has facts based on history?
500
Star Wars, A Wrinkle in Time Lawn Boy or The Time Machine
What is science fiction?
500
made up story that sounds real but is not
What is realistic fiction?
500

story teaches a lesson or moral

theme

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