ELA Genres Vocabulary Review

Fiction

• a story that is NOT real

• · a piece of writing that is about facts and real events

• About a person’s life, Written by someone else, 3^rd person pronouns (he, she, they, Explains why that person is important, 100% nonfiction

• Used to learn information about a topic, Contains a lot of facts, May contain a lot of nonfiction text features (charts, maps, time lines), 100% nonfiction

Historical Fiction

• Usually set in today’s time period or in the past (not future), includes a lot of cliffhangers and foreshadowing, has a crime that needs to be solved, 100% fiction

• set in the past, based around an important historical event, mix of fact and fiction

• Subgenre of fantasy, Old stories retold over time orally, Legends, gods, goddesses as characters, set in Greece or Rome, The story explains something about nature

• About a person’s life, Written by that person, 1^st person pronouns (I, me, we, ours), Gives personal feelings and experiences, 100% nonfiction

Realistic Fiction

• Set in today’s time period, realistic characters, realistic plot events, 100% fiction

• set in the past, based around an important historical event, mix of fact and fiction

• Subgenre of fantasy, Old stories retold over time orally, Legends, gods, goddesses as characters, set in Greece or Rome, The story explains something about nature

• Magical characters, Magical plot events, 100% fiction

Fantasy

• set in the past, based around an important historical event, mix of fact and fiction

• About a person’s life, Written by someone else, 3^rd person pronouns (he, she, they, Explains why that person is important, 100% nonfiction)

• Magical characters, Magical plot events, 100% fiction

• Used to learn information about a topic, Contains a lot of facts, May contain a lot of nonfiction text features (charts, maps, time lines), 100% nonfiction

Science Fiction

• a piece of writing that is about facts and real events

• About a person’s life, Written by that person, 1^st person pronouns (I, me, we, ours), Gives personal feelings and experiences, 100% nonfiction

• Subgenre of fantasy, Old stories retold over time orally, Animals as main characters that talk, Lesson or moral to be learned, 100% fiction

• Subgenre of fantasy, sometimes set in the future, advanced technology, sometimes includes time or space travel, 100% fiction

Mystery

• Subgenre of fantasy, Old stories retold over time orally, Animals as main characters that talk, Lesson or moral to be learned, 100% fiction

• Usually set in today’s time period or in the past (not future), includes a lot of cliffhangers and foreshadowing, has a crime that needs to be solved, 100%

• Subgenre of fantasy, Old stories retold over time orally, Legends, gods, goddesses as characters, set in Greece or Rome, The story explains something about nature

• a specific type of writing

Fable

• Subgenre of fantasy, sometimes set in the future, advanced technology, sometimes includes time or space travel, 100% fiction

• a specific type of writing

• Subgenre of fantasy, Old stories retold over time orally, Animals as main characters that talk, Lesson or moral to be learned, 100% fiction

• a piece of writing that is about facts and real events

Myth

• Subgenre of fantasy, sometimes set in the future, advanced technology, sometimes includes time or space travel, 100% fiction

• About a person’s life, Written by someone else, 3^rd person pronouns (he, she, they, Explains why that person is important, 100% nonfiction

• Used to learn information about a topic, Contains a lot of facts, May contain a lot of nonfiction text features (charts, maps, time lines), 100% nonfiction

• Subgenre of fantasy, Old stories retold over time orally, Legends, gods, goddesses as characters, set in Greece or Rome, The story explains something about nature

Non-Fiction

• a story that is NOT real

• a piece of writing that is about facts and real events

• About a person’s life, Written by someone else, 3^rd person pronouns (he, she, they, Explains why that person is important, 100% nonfiction

• Magical characters, Magical plot events, 100% fiction

Biography

• Used to learn information about a topic, Contains a lot of facts, May contain a lot of nonfiction text features (charts, maps, time lines), 100% nonfiction

• Subgenre of fantasy, Old stories retold over time orally, Legends, gods, goddesses as characters, set in Greece or Rome, The story explains something about nature

• Magical characters, Magical plot events, 100% fiction

• About a person’s life, Written by someone else, 3^rd person pronouns (he, she, they, Explains why that person is important, 100% nonfiction