Type of Genre
Define the Genre
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Definition
Genre
100

 Stories with either fairies or magical creatures and characters and are usually written for children.

What is Fairy Tale?

100

What is a legend?

What is a story that is sometimes about a folk hero?

100

The types of book(s)/ stories/ movies with various gods.

What is Percy Jackson?

What is Hercules?

What is Zeus, Athena, Poseidon, Hades? 

100

The story that will involve fictional characters and events that take place in a historical setting.  

What is Historical Fiction?

100

The Three Little Pigs.

Hansel and Gretel.

What is Folklore?

200

This will involve strange or other worldly settings and/or characters. Doesn't deal in reality

What is Fantasy?

200

How is Poetry written? 

What is written in verse and/ or rhyme?

200

The type of places where other worldly/ or strange creatures live.

What is Harry Potter? 

What is Wings of Fire? 

What is the Wizard of Oz?

What is Narnia?

200

The story with imaginary and often futuristic elements or can take place on other planets. 

What is Science Fiction?

200
Cinderella.

Snow White.

Beauty and the Beast

What is a Fairy Tale? 

300

This is a legend or written in narrative style, and is often historical. Usually has various gods involved.

What is mythology?

300

What is a Mystery? 

What is is a fiction involving a solution of a crime or the discovering of clues and secrets?

300

The type of story that solves crimes.

What is Nancy Drew?

What is Sherlock Holmes? 

300

This is written as a narrative, the content could be a true story, sometimes based on fact, it is imaginary. 

What is Fiction?

300

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Dog Man

Captain Underpants

What is Fiction?

400

 Fiction full of fun, comedy and excitement, written to entertain you.

What is Humor?

400

What is a Folklore? 

What is songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a people or "folk" and is handed down by generation or by word of mouth? 

400

The type of Fables. 

What is The Tortoise and The Hare?

What is Goldilocks and the Three Bears?

What is The Boy who Cried Wolf?


400

This can involve songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a people or "folk" and is handed down by generation or by word of mouth.

What is Folklore?

400

All Summer in a Day

A Wrinkle in Time

Ender's Game


What is Science Fiction?

500

Can be a humorous story that is too far fetched to be true. Often includes exaggeration and/or hyperbole.

What is Tall Tale?

500

What is Fable?

What is often written as a legend often involves a useful truth? 

500

The type of Horror in book(s) or movies.

What is IT?

What is Scream?

What is Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

What is Goosebumps?

500

The events involving conflict and resolution. Involves characters, plot and sometimes a theme.   

What is Drama? 

500

Who Was....

I Survived...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

What is Historical Fiction?