Genre 1
Any story that is true and based on facts.
What is nonfiction?
A story dealing with a puzzling crime.
What is a mystery?
A true story about a person written by that same person.
What is autobiography?
Any story that is not true/made up.
What is fiction?
A true story about a real person written by a different person.
What is a biography?
A story with unbelievable or exaggerated events, often based on real people.
What is a tall tale?
A short story, typically with animals as characters, ending with a moral or lesson.
What is a fable?
A story, often set in the future, with advanced technology that we do not currently possess.
What is science fiction?
A story using a made up plot, setting and characters that could be true.
What is realistic fiction?
A story usually containing magic and other supernatural phenomena.
What is fantasy?
If you write a book about the Rock.
What is a biography?
Books that provide facts about a topic or many topics.
What is information text or nonfiction?
A fictional story that takes place during the Civil War.
What is historical fiction?
The story of Frederick Douglass written by Frederick Douglass.
What is an autobiography?
A story where people are replaced with robots.
What is science fiction?
Often ends with "and they lived happily ever after."
What is a fairy tale?
The story of Zeus.
What is a myth?
A sleuth seeks out the killer.
What is a mystery?
Stories that were first handed down from generation to generation.
What are folk tales or traditional literature?
A story about a teenager who discovers she is a witch.
What is fantasy?
A crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a Fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese.
"Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said, 'What a noble bird I see above me! Her beauty is without equal, the hue of her plumage exquisite. If only her voice is as sweet as her looks are fair, she ought without doubt to be Queen of the Birds.
"The Crow was hugely flattered by this, and just to show the Fox that she could sing she gave a loud caw. Down came the cheese and the Fox, snatching it up, said, 'You have a voice, madam, I see: what you want is wits.'"Moral: Do not trust flatterers"
What is a fable?
Kronos was the father of the Olympians.
What is a myth?
A book about how to build a computer.
What is nonfiction/information text?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
What is poetry?
Shakespeare's most famous work, Romeo and Juliet.
What is a drama (play)?