Neale Genre Review

fiction that SEEMS REAL

• Biographical Fiction

• Contemporary Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

about imaginary people who could be living in PRESENT times

• Biographical Fiction

• Contemporary Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

accurate HISTORICAL time period with imagined characters

• Contemporary Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Science Fiction

true to a time of history, about a REAL PERSON with added events that may not have happened

• Biographical Fiction

• Contemporary Fiction

• Science Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

not realistic; set in the FUTURE

• Realistic Fiction

• Science Fiction

• Fantasy

• Folktales

opposite of realistic fiction; things that are IMPOSSIBLE in the real world

• Fables

• Fantasy

• Folktales

• Legends

traditional stories of a particular place or people; TOLD ALOUD

• Fables

• Fantasy

• Folktales

• Legends

stories with animal characters that speak and act like people; usually TEACHES a moral or LESSON

• Fables

• Folktales

• Legends

• Myths

imaginative stories set in an earlier time period and TOLD by those MUCH LATER

• Fables

• Folktales

• Legends

• Myths

ancient stories passed down from generation to generation; have GODS and GODDESSES

• Fables

• Folktales

• Legends

• Myths