Fiction
Nonfiction
Types of Fiction
Types of Nonfiction
100

The people, animals, or things in story

What are characters?

100

Provable pieces of information about a topic

What are facts?

100

A genre that features magical elements and creatures

What is fantasy?

100

A true story about a person's life written by that person

What is an autobiography?

200

The place and time of a story

What is setting?

200

Additional parts of the text that help the reader better understand the information

What are text features?

200

A genre that often involves detectives and solving unexplained events or crimes

What is mystery?

200

A true story about someone's life written by someone else

What is a biography?

300

The events of a story (beginning, middle, and end)

What is plot?

300

The ways a text is organized

What is text structure?

300

A genre that tells stories about events that could happen in real life

What is realistic fiction?

300

A short nonfiction text that informs the reader about one topic or subject

What is an essay?

400

The problem characters face

What is conflict?

400

The opposite of fiction

What is nonfiction?

400

A genre that involves futuristic technology or space travel

What is science fiction?

400

Nonfiction books used a lot in schools to teach students about a topic

What is a textbook?

500

How characters solve their problem

What is resolution?

500

To inform the reader and give information

Why do author's write nonfiction?

500

A genre that involves real historical events but adds fictional elements like made up characters

What is historical fiction?

500

A nonfiction piece that includes questions and answers with a person

What is an interview?