Literary Genres

Narration demonstrating a useful truth, especially in which animals speak as humans; legendary,

supernatural tales.

• Fiction in Verse

• Fantasy

• Fable

• Folklore

Story about fairies or other magical creatures, usually for children.

• Fairy Tale

• Fable

• Fantasy

• Mystery

Fiction with strange or other worldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality.

• Fiction

• Legend

• Mystery

• Fantasy

Narrative literary works whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.

• Fairy Tale

• Fantasy

• Fiction

• Fable

Full-length novels with plot, subplot(s), theme(s), major and minor characters, in which the narrative is

presented in (usually blank) verse form.

• Fiction

• Fiction in Verse

• Folklore

• Legend

The songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a people or "folk" as handed down by word of mouth.

• Historical Fiction

• Drama

• Tall Tale

• Folklore

Story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting.

• Historical Fiction

• Mythology

• Folklore

• Fantasy

Fiction in which events evoke a feeling of dread in both the characters and the reader.

• Mystery

• Poetry

• Horror

• Mythology

Fiction full of fun, fancy, and excitement, meant to entertain; but can be contained in all genres

• Legend

• Humor

• Short Story

• Fairy Tale

Story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, which has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material.

• Fantasy

• Poetry

• Tall Tale

• Legend