Different Genres

Stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting. These stories resemble real life, and fictional characters within these stories react similarly to real people.

• Fantasy

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Informational

Fictional stories that can include magic, supernatural events, or talking animals.

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

Often futuristic, can include spaceships, time travel, or robots. May also include bleak outlooks of the future.

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Graphic Novels

A fictional story that can actually happen, always takes place during the past and sometimes attached to an event from history.

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Informational

Which genre is set in the present, and features characters who are just like real people?

• Fantasy

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

If a story gives you goosebumps and chills and makes it hard to sleep at night because you are scared to close your eyes, what genre could it be?

• Fantasy

• Mystery

• Horror

• Humor

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

• Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

• Realistic Fiction

• Poetry

• Informational

Type of artistic writing using carefully chosen words and arranging them in meaningful ways. Words may have a rhythm and rhyme. This also includes books in verse.

• Science Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Autobiography/Biography/Memoir

• Poetry

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

• Informational

• Poetry

• Science Fiction

• Fantasy

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

• biography

• autobiography

• fable

• memoir