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Setting
Characters
Authors
What's It For?
Tip Off!
100
This setting is in the past.
Historical Fiction
100

In this genre, animals talk and act like people.

Fantasy or Fables

100

This genre has many authors, passed down from generation to generation verbally

Traditional Literature (folktale)

100
This genre teaches a moral lesson.
Traditional Literature (fables)
100
Facts about a person's life
Biography or Autobiography
200

This setting can be imaginary

Fantasy or Fairy Tale

200
This type of genre often has princes or princesses or magical characters
Traditional Literature (or fairy tales)
200
Someone writes about his or her own life in this genre
Autobiography
200
This is another way to describe a non-fiction book -- look at the genre categories..... :)
Informational
200
This genre has a rhythm or a beat
Poetry
300
Settings in this genre are real with real people.
Historical fiction, biography or autobiography
300
Characters do impossible things that could not really happen in real life (for example, fly around).
Fantasy
300

This story was originally not written down

Folktale

300
This genre is for giving us information on a topic of study.
Informational
300
Crime to be solved
Mystery
400

This setting takes place in the future!

Science Fiction

400

This genre contains stories about a real person in life

Biography or Autobiography

400
This genre's author writes about others' lives, not their own.
Biography
400
Good overcomes evil and the princess is rescued by her prince!
Traditional Literature
400
Events in this genre could really happen in life

Realistic Fiction

500
The setting of the story doesn't really exist but it is modeled after a place that really does exist
Realistic fiction
500
This genre has characters that are solving problems using clues.
Mystery
500

The authors in this genre love to rhyme their words.

Poetry

500
This genre allows you to see inside a person's life from their own point of view, not someone else's.
Autobiography
500
This genre might include stories about aliens and UFO's, or traveling through outer space
Science Fiction