Writing Genres

Name that Genre!

• folktale

• mystery

• fantasy

• poetry

a NOT true story about the past

• science fiction

• fantasy

• historical fiction

• realistic fiction

dealing with aliens, robots, or future science

• historical fiction

• science fiction

• realistic fiction

• fantasy

a story that could have happened, but didn't

• historical fiction

• science fiction

• fantasy

• realistic fiction

Has a detective searching for clues

• mystery

• science fiction

• biography

• folktale

Name that Genre!

• nonfiction

• biography

• realistic fiction

• mystery

A writer's account of his or her own life.

• biography

• autobiography

• fable

• memoir

Which genre involves historical characters or events with a contrived plot.

• fantasy

• nonfiction

• historical fiction

• realistic fiction

Writer explores unexpected possibilities of the future and "what-ifs"

• fantasy

• science fiction

• essay

• tragedy

A humorously exaggerated story about impossible events

• fable

• tall tale

• legend

• myth