Literary Genres

Made up stories that blend fact and fiction with futuristic technology.

Stories that have a real setting and a problem to be solved that includes clues.

Stories that take place in a certain time and place in the past.

Literary genre refers to:

Stories that could really happen. Contemporary fiction is set in modern times.

There are different genres of music, dance, art and literature.

Written to inspire thoughts and feelings in the reader. It often uses rhyme and rhythm.

True story of a real person’s life from the past or present written by that person.

Nonfiction books that give true facts on a variety of subjects.

The word "genre" means...

What genre is a script meant to be performed by actors and actresses?

True story of a real person’s life from the past or present written by someone else.

Story including magic, talking objects and usually a conflict between good and evil.

Stories, myths, and fables people told one another over the years. Later, stories written down.