5 Genres of Literature

A story for stage performance by actors

• Folk Tale

• Non-fiction

• Fiction

• Play

• Poetry

Words arranged in a metrical pattern, often using rhymed verse in an imaginative way.

• Play

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction

• Folk Tale

• Poetry

An anonymous, timeless, and placeless story that is originally told rather than written.

• Folk Tale

• Fiction

• Non-fiction

• Poetry

• Play

True stories of actual events or characters.

• Play

• Fiction

• Non-fiction

• Poetry

• Folk Tale

Invented stories with imaginary characters and events.

• Play

• Poetry

• Folk Tale

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction

A story about a person’s life written by another person.

• Autobiography

• Biography

• Information

• Newspaper

• Reference

A story about a person written by that person.

• Newspaper

• Refenece

• Biography

• Autobiography

• Information

“How To” book and books that provide information about specific topics.

• Biography

• Autobiography

• Newspaper

• Information

• Reference

Articles related to current events.

• Biography

• Autobiography

• Reference

• Information

• Newspaper

Encyclopedia

• Biography

• Autobiography

• Reference

• Newspaper

• Information