GENRE

A category or type of literature characterized by a particular form, style or content.

• Genre

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

• Poetry

Literature, like short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.

• Genre

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

• Poetry

Novels in which a story is made up but is set in the past and sometimes borrows true characteristics of the time period in which it is set.

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Traditional Literature

Stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting. These stories resemble real life, and fictional characters within theses stories react similar to real people.

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Traditional Literature

Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Traditional Literature

An imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.

• Science Fiction

• Dystopian

• Realistic Fiction

• Horror

Typically features the use of magic or other supernatural phenomena in the plot, setting or theme. The reader typically learns along with the main character.

• Science Fiction

• Dystopian

• Mythology

• Fantasy

Traditional or legendary story usually concerning some being or hero or event. Concerned with deities or demigods, and explains some practice, rite or phenomenon of nature.

• Science Fiction

• Dystopian

• Mythology

• Fantasy

Fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved.

• Science Fiction

• Mystery

• Mythology

• Fantasy

Stories that are passed down from generation to generation connects the future to the past. This includes folktales, legends, fables, fairy tales, tall tales, and myths form different cultures. .

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Traditional Literature