Setting
This setting is in the past and about a specific time period in history.
What is historical fiction?
In this sub-genre, animals talk and act like people and it tells a moral.
What is fable?
This sub-genre has many authors, passed down from generation to generation verbally
Traditional Literature (folk tale)
This sub-genre overly exaggerates a possible true event.
What is traditional Literature (legend)?
This usually contains gods and goddesses and explains why something occurs.
What is traditional (myth)?
This setting can be imaginary with wizards
What is fantasy?
This type of sub-genre often has princes or princesses or magical characters
What is traditional literature (or fairy tales)?
Someone writes about his or her own life in this sub-genre
Autobiography
This sub-genre may be scary
What is horror?
This genre has a rhythm or a beat
What is poetry?
Settings in this sub-genre are about real people.
biography or autobiography
Characters do impossible things that could not really happen in real life (for example, fly around).
What is fantasy?
This story was originally not written down
(traditional) Folk tale
This sub-genre is for giving us information on a topic of study.
What is informational?
Crime to be solved
What is mystery?
This setting takes place in the future!
Science Fiction
This sub-genre contains true information about specific topics
What is informational?
This sub-genre's author writes about others' lives, not their own.
What is biography?
Good overcomes evil and the princess is rescued by her prince!
What is traditional Literature (fairytale)?
A story that is meant to be acted out on the stage
What is drama or a play?
The setting of the story doesn't really exist, but it is modeled after a place that really does exist like a high school
Realistic fiction
This sub-genre has characters that are solving problems using clues.
Mystery
The authors in this sub-genre love to rhyme their words.
What is poetry?
This sub-genre allows you to see inside a person's life from their own point of view, not someone else's.
What is autobiography?
This sub-genre might include stories about aliens and UFO's, or traveling through outer space
What is science fiction?