1. GENRE REVIEW

2. Your social studies or history book falls into what subgenre?

3. INFORMATIONAL WRITING

4. When someone writes the story of his own life, what is that called?

5. AUTOBIOGRAPHY

6. When the main characters skills, strength, or size are exaggerated greatly in a humorous way, what genre is it?

7. TALL TALE

8. What genre is a very short story with talking animals and a moral?

9. FABLE

10. Stories with gods and/or goddesses that usually account for the creation of something are….

11. MYTHS

12. Stories with magic, kings, queens, princesses, and/or talking animals
Stories with magic, kings, queens, princesses, and/or talking animals. They usually have a human main character and start with “once upon a time.”

13. FAIRY TALES

14. Stories that could actually happen, but they are made up.

15. REALISTIC FICTION

16. Fictional stories based on or around important people or events from the past.

17. HISTORICAL FICTION

18. Stories with aliens, advanced technology, or futuristic weaponry…

19. SCIENCE FICTION

20. Stories with magic, monsters, superpowers, or other things that do not exist in reality…

21. FANTASY

22. Writing that is “true,” factual, informative, or persuasive

23. NONFICTION

24. Two subgenres of this main genre include tragedies and comedies.

25. DRAMA

26. Most stories fall into this genre, which means that the text is made up or a product of the imagination.

27. FICTION

28. Authors of stories in this genre are often “retelling” the story
Authors of stories in this genre are often “retelling” the story. It may say “adapted by,” “retold by,” or the author may be “unkown”

29. FOLKLORE