What's Your Genre
Traditional Lit.
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Poetry
100
made up characters that could really happen
What is realistic fiction?
100
teaches a moral
What is a fable?
100
story of a real person's life
What is a biography?
100
characters
Who are the people are animals in a story?
100
uses rhythm and rhyme
what is a poem?
200
facts about variety of topics
What is informational
200
uses hyperbole
What is a tall tale?
200
sports, careers, travel, history
What are informational books?
200
Where and when of the story
What is the setting?
200
free verse
What is a poem called that does not rhyme?
300
person's life written by that person
What is autobiography?
300
explains something in nature or phenomenon
What is a myth?
300
paraphrase
What is another word for summary
300
conflict
What is the problem of the story?
300
uses like or as
What is a simile?
400
suspenseful story with puzzling event
What is a mystery?
400
good vs. evil/royalty
What is a fairy tale?
400
inform, entertain, persuade
What is author's purpose?
400
resolution
What is the solution of the story?
400
sounds...whoosh
What is onomatopoeia?
500
fantasy that uses science and technology
What is science fiction?
500
Greek slave
Who was Aesop?
500
cause/effect
What is the why and what?
500
point of view
Who is telling the story?
500
stanza
What is a group of lines in a poem?