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Fables

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Folktale/Fiction; Teaches a moral or a lesson; Animals as characters; Example: Aesop’s Fables

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Science Fiction

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Fiction; Usually takes place in the future; Deals with science and technology; Space, time travel, robots, machines; Examples: Star Wars, Hunger Games

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Fantasy

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Fiction; Author creates a magical world; Magical powers, talking animals, magical beings; Make believe is what the genre is all about; Have realistic elements; Examples: Harry Potter; Percy Jackson

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Fairy Tale

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Folktale; Short Story; Fiction; Adapted and retold; Good vs. Evil, element of magic, numbers 3 & 7; Begins with 'Once upon a time'; Ends with 'Happily ever after'; Examples: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty

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Tall Tales

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Folktale; A work of fiction; Involves characters or events that are extremely exaggerated; Presented as if they are true; Examples: Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan

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Drama/Play

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Can be fiction or nonfiction; Stories that can be acted out; Act/Scenes; Characters and Narrators; Setting--Dialogue and Stage Directions; Examples: Hamilton, Cats

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Novel

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Fiction; Book length; longer than a short story; Has all narrative plot elements

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Short Story

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Fiction; All narrative plot elements; Significantly shorter than novel (book); Usually 1-10 pages

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Stanza

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Group of lines in poetry; Set off by white space; The paragraph of a poem

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A. Rhythm/B. Rhyme/C. Meter

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The beat of the poem when reading its words; Words that sound the same often last word of a line, same ending sound; Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables