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

100

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

Traditional Literature (folk tale)

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 non-fiction book that provides information about a specific topic.

Informational

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
Folk tale
300

Crime to be solved

Mystery

400
This setting takes place in the future!
Science Fiction
400
This genre's author writes about others' lives, not their own.
Biography
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