Genres

Suspenseful stories involving a puzzling event or crime to be solved

• Mystery

• fantasy

• biography

• Fairy Tale

True events, facts, information

• fiction

• non-fiction

• graphic novel

• realistic fiction

Type or style of story

• biography

• dewey decimal system

• genre

• label

literature passed down for generations that express culture

• realistic fiction

• folk literature

• mystery

• science fiction

Creative expressions in verse or rhyme

• poetry

• historical fiction

• Informational

• anime

Made-up stories about the past

• realistic fiction

• science fiction

• historical fiction

• biography

A kind of story that takes place in the present with characters involved in events that could actually take place

• non-fiction

• realistic fiction

• science fiction

• folk literature

Made-up stories often set in space, the future, or an alternate universe, dimension, or world

• non-fiction

• historical fiction

• mystery

• science fiction

made-up story with magic or imaginary animals or talking animals

• historical fiction

• realistic fiction

• non-fiction

• fantasy