Genres of Writing

Stories that often take place in the future and can be amount imaginary new science and inventions such as spaceships, time machines, and robots. Also included is dystopian, bleak outlooks of the future.

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Graphic Novels

A story that can actually happen and is true to life but also either takes place in a historical setting or attaches itself to an event in history.

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Informational

A story about someone's life, it can be written by the person themselves or another author.

• Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

• Realistic Fiction

• Poetry

• Informational

Also known as Nonfiction, gives real information about the past, present, and future. Includes an unlimited amount of topics.

• Informational

• Literary

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

____ is literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation. Types of literature include the novel, short story and novella.

• Poetry

• Non-Fiction

• Drama

• Fiction

What do you call an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound and rhythmic language choices to evoke an emotional response. It has been known to employ meter and rhyme. The very nature of poetry as an authentic and individual mode of expression makes it nearly impossible to define.

• drama

• poetry

• fiction

• non-fiction

The Hunger Games series that explores dystopian or postapocalyptic themes is an example of this literary genre.

• Historical Fiction

• Biography

• Science Fiction

• Creative Non-Fiction

It is a brief artistic prose form that centers on a single main incident.

• Short story

• Novel

• Poems

• Epic

A genre of writing that involves magical elements and fantastical worlds, often including mythical creatures and magical powers.

• A) Fantasy

• B) Realistic Fiction

• C) Science Fiction

• D) Historical Fiction

A genre of writing that focuses on factual information and real events, often used to inform or educate the reader.

• A) Fiction

• B) Non-Fiction

• C) Fantasy

• D) Poetry