Types of Novels. Genre: A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content.

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Types of Novels

Genre: A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content.

Adventure Novel: A novel where exciting events are more important than character development and sometimes theme.

Apologue: A moral fable, usually featuring personified animals or inanimate objects that act like people to allow the author to comment on the human condition.

Biography: A written account of another person’s life Autobiography: A novel based on the author’s life experience

Coming-of-Age Story: A type of novel where the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge and experience

Epic: An extended narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes and written in a high style. Example: The Iliad

Fantasy Novel: Any novel that is disengaged from reality. The characters are often non-human. Example: The Hobbit

Fiction: Any story that is the product of imagination, rather than a documentation of fact. Nonfiction: Text that is not fictional; designed primarily to explain, argue, instruct, or describe rather than to entertain.

Novel: An extended prose fiction narrative of 50,000 words or more concerning the everyday events of ordinary people.

Novella: A prose fiction longer than a short story, but shorter then a novel. Example: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Pseudonym: A “false name” or alias used by a writer desiring not to use his or her real name. Sometimes called a pen name.”

Regional Novel: A novel faithful to a particular geographic region and its people, including behavior, customs, speech, and history. Example: To Kill a Mockingbird

Series: Several novels related to each other by plot, setting, character, or all three. Example: Chronicles of Narnia