TYPES OF FICTION

WHICH TYPE OF FICTION HAS THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: (1)Has life like characters  (2) Set in a real place or a place that seems real (3)Has a plot that could happen.  (Also NOTE:  'Contemporary'  is a subcategory of this types of fiction and contemporary means 'set in the present time'.

• FANTASY

• FABLE

• REALISTIC

• LEGEND

• HISTORICAL

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WHICH TYPE OF FICTION HAS THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: (1)Set in the past in a real historical time (World War II, Civil War, Titanic’s sinking)  (2)Usually about imaginary characters whose experiences fit in with real historical events

• FANTASY

• FABLE

• REALISTIC

• LEGEND

• HISTORICAL

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WHICH TYPE OF FICTION HAS THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES:  (1) Includes some events, characters, or places that are PURELY IMAGINARY and could not exist in the ‘real world’.  (2) Laws of time and space may be broken.  (3) Characters may have powers, can fly, can do magic

• FANTASY

• FABLE

• REALISTIC

• LEGEND

• HISTORICAL

WHICH TYPE OF FICTION HAS THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: (1) About the LIFE of a REAL PERSON  (2) Includes events that the author makes up to explain the actual historical period of that person  (3)The story may focus more on THE PERSON than the time period.

• FANTASY

• FABLE

• REALISTIC

• LEGEND

• BIOGRAPHICAL

WHICH TYPE OF FICTION HAS THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: (1) Usually set in the FUTURE  (2) Often includes space travel  (3) Uses SCIENTIFIC discoveries to explain what the world of the future is like

• FANTASY

• FABLE

• SCIENCE FICTION

• LEGEND

• BIOGRAPHICAL

WHICH TYPE OF FICTION HAS THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: (1) Simple, traditional tales of a particular place or people (Native Americans)  (2) Passed down orally from generation to generation  (3)  Stories are often simple and include one-dimensional characters (a character who demonstrates one main quality/trait)

• FOLKTALE

• FABLE

• SCIENCE FICTION

• LEGEND

• BIOGRAPHICAL

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WHICH TYPE OF FICTION HAS THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: (1) Short stories in which the characters are ANIMALS that think, speak and act like people (personification)  (2) The stories are often a reflection of the way people behave (3)  Often ends with a ‘MORAL’ or ‘lesson’  (4)'Aesop' is one of the most famous writers of this type of fiction.

• FOLKTALE

• FABLE

• SCIENCE FICTION

• LEGEND

• BIOGRAPHICAL

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WHICH TYPE OF FICTION HAS THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: (1) Ancient stories passed down to tell how the world came into being or to explain something in NATURE  (2) The stories include GODS AND GODDESSES with supernatural powers as well as mortals

• FOLKTALE

• FABLE

• SCIENCE FICTION

• MYTH

• BIOGRAPHICAL

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WHICH TYPE OF FICTION HAS THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: (1) Set in an earlier time and told by those who live much later  (2) Adventures of a HERO  (King Arthur) (3) May be based on a true account of someone’s heroic deeds that were EXAGGERATED and over dramatized in many retellings

• FOLKTALE

• FABLE

• SCIENCE FICTION

• MYTH

• LEGEND