Story Genres

a short story; it has a moral or life lesson; usually has talking animals as main characters.

written to portray a time period or convey information about a specific period or event.

Story with magic, monsters, and/or talking animals (like fiction/fantasy)

Make-believe stories that could have been true. They have plot, character and setting

an exaggerated story about something that may have been real at one time.

A literary work written for performance on the stage; a drama

Has gods or goddesses and often accounts for how something came to be.

Non-Fiction dealing with a topic with the intention of providing facts on a subject.

A piece of literature written in meter; verse

An account of a person's life written, composed or produced by another person.

Stories where main character's strength, skills or size have been exaggerated. Tone is funny.

An account of a person's life written by the person.