Literary Terms- GENRE

The author tells about his or her own life-

• memoir 
• autobiography 
• narrative 
• biography 

Gives a factual account of someone's life-

• memoir 
• autobiography 
• narrative 
• biography 

A story told by actors that play the roles of the characters

• memoir
• narrative
• drama
• poem 

A brief tale that uses animals as characters and teaches a moral, or lesson-

• fable
• fairy tale
• fantasy
• fiction 

 A story in which something impossible is made to seem real-

• fable
• fairy tale
• fantasy
• fiction 

Literature that tells about characters, setting, and events that the writer makes up-

• fable
• fairy tale
• folk tale
• fiction 

Short stories which contain magic or supernatural characters-

• fable
• fairy tale 
• folk tale
• fiction 

A made up story that is passed down orally from generation to another- 

• fable
• fairy tale
• folk tale 
• fiction 

Uses details about real places, events and times from history as setting for an imagined story-

• legend
• fiction
• historical fiction 
• science fiction 

Fictional story handed down from the past; often based on real heroic characters (Paul Bunyan) 

• legend
• fable
• folk tale
• fairy tale