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Genre, Genre, who knows the Genre?
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a fictional story with characters who take part in activities that could happen
What is Realistic Fiction?
100
invented stories with imaginary characters and events
What is Fiction?
100
a person's life story written by another person
What is a Biography?
100
the problem or struggle between two opposing forces in a story
What is conflict?
100
The “Dark, dusty corner in the House”
What is setting?
200
imaginative, fictional stories involving actual or projected scientific phenomena
What is Science Fiction?
200
true stories of actual events or characters
What is Nonfiction?
200
a person's life story written by himself or herself
What is an Autobiography?
200
a novella is longer than a short story but shorter than a -
What is a novel?
200
an oral presentation that gives the speaker's ideas or beliefs
What is a Speech?
300
a fictional story with characters who try to solve a crime or unexplained event
What is a Mystery?
300
Writing that serves a practical purpose, such as an instruction manual.
What is a functional document?
300
Writing that deals with real people, events, and places
What is Nonfiction?
300
the arrangement of a poem on the page
What is Form?
300
movies with narratives
What is feature films?
400
a fictional story set in the past with character who take part in actual historical events and interact with real people from the past
What is Historical Fiction?
400
a story meant for a stage, performed by actors
What is a Drama?
400
a daily or weekly publication of current events
What is a newspaper?
400
the place and time frame in which a story takes place
What is setting?
400
in a drama, this is what scenes are grouped into
What is acts?
500
a fictional story set in make-believe worlds, often with non-human characters
What are Fantasies and Fairy Tales?
500
words arranged in metrical pattern, often using rhymed verse in an imaginative style
What is Poetry?
500
the telling of a story
What is narrative?
500
the message about life or human nature that is “the focus” in the story that is often implied
What is theme?
500
the person or Force that works against the hero of the story
What is the Antagonist?
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