Literary Genres

Contains facts and figures that help you learn something new.

• mystery

• fable

• informational

Fictional story based on something that really happened in the past.

• historical fiction

• tall tale

• biography

A classic children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands.

• tall tale

• myth

• fairy tale

Fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore

• biography

• fantasy

• mystery

A story about a person's life, written by another person.

• science fiction

• biography

• fable

stories focus on a puzzling crime, situation, or circumstance that needs to be solved

• myth

• mystery

• historical fiction

stories that teach a lesson or moral

• fantasy

• tall tale

• fable

a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some are exaggerations of actual events

• tall tale

• informational

• mystery

fiction that typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology

• historical fiction

• myth

• science fiction

creates imaginary characters and situations that depict our world and society

• realistic fiction

• fable

• myth