Literary Genres

Genre means

How many Genres are there?

• 1

• 4

• 5

• 7

Drama is

• is based on a true story.

• written to perform, like a play.

• full of rhyme and figurative language.

• always funny.

Realistic fiction is a

• Genre

• Subgenre

Non-Fiction is

• Not true, stories are made up

• Is meant to cause strong emotion

• Factual, based on real events.

• Can only be written by someone who has died.

What genre has lines and stanzas, and often uses figurative language?

• Drama

• Fiction

• Non-Fiction

• Poetry

True or False: Non-Fiction is a subgenre of Fiction.

• True

• False

Which is not a subgenre for Fiction?

• Historical Fiction

• Romance

• Personal Narrative

• Mystery

Subgenres are

• Smaller more specific categories within a larger genre.

• The same things as genres.

• Different types of genres.

• Only found in Fiction.

Which subgenre typically contains a crime or an event that must be solved by a protagonist?

• Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Mystery

• Action-Adventure