Genre Unit Study Guide

Genre

• a category of writing
• Japanese form of poetry about nature, made up of three lines
• funny, rhyming, and has five lines
• does not have set structure, does not rhyme

Nonfiction

• writing that is true
• a play or script
• writing that tells about imaginary characters and events
• stories once passed down orally

Realistic Fiction

• has no elements of fantasy; could be true but isn’t
• shaped to look like its subject
• does not have set structure, does not rhyme
• a category of genre

Drama

• tells a life story written by oneself
• writing that is true
• stories once passed down orally
• a play or script

Science Fiction

• funny, rhyming, and has five lines
• has aliens, robots, futuristic technology and/or space ships
• Japanese form of poetry about nature, made up of three lines
• stories once passed down orally

Poetry

• writing concerned with the beauty of language
• funny, rhyming, and has five lines
• expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse
• writing that tells about imaginary characters and events

Argumentative

• a category of genre
• tries to influence the reader
• Japanese form of poetry about nature, made up of three lines
• a category of writing

Information

• explains something to the reader
• shaped to look like its subject
• stories once passed down orally
• writing that tells about imaginary characters and events

Autobiography

• has magic and/or talking animals
• does not have set structure, does not rhyme
• expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse
• tells a life story written by oneself

Myth

• expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse
• funny, rhyming, and has five lines funny, rhyming, and has five lines
• has gods/goddesses and usually accounts for the creation of people
• a category of writing