Genre definitions
Genre
Fiction
- Adventure
- Stories with exciting activity
- May include spies
- Presents an obstacle that is resolved
- Animal Fiction
- Has talking animals
- Animals act like people
- May be stories about kids and their pets
- Fantasy
- Has a magical element
- Has magical/mythical characters
- Includes good versus evil
- Historical Fiction
- Historical People and events in a story possibly with some fictitious characters
- Can be distinguished from non-fiction by the inclusion of conversations with quotes (i.e. he said, she said)
- Horror
- Exceptionally scary stories
- Humorous Fiction
- Funny stories
- Mystery
- Whodunit stories
- May include a crime and investigation
- May be a question to be answered
- Includes suspense and climax
- Realistic Fiction
- Made-up stories taking place in modern times
- Normally involving family, friends and/or relationships
- Stories could happen
- Stories that helps us learn about ourselves
- Scary Stories
- Suspenseful, but not as scary as horror
- Science Fiction
- Futuristic stories dealing with technology and/or space
Non-Fiction
- Biography-
- Book about a person or group of persons
- Folklore
- Fairy tales, Fables, Myths, Legends
- Informational
- Describing a topic
- Poetry
- Verse