1. Language Arts
Genres of Literature

2. Fiction
Fiction stories are INVENTED stories with IMAGINARY characters and events.

3. Nonfiction stories are TRUE stories of actual events or characters.

4. A novel is a longer story that is written in chapters.

5. Tall Tale
Tall tales are fictional stories containing exaggerations and in which the main character is bigger than life in some way.

6. Picture Book
A picture book is a short story that combines words and pictures to tell a story.

7. Fantasy A fantasy is a fictional story with elements that are not
realistic, such as talking animals or magical powers.

9. Fables
Fables are short tales used to teach a moral lesson, often with animals as characters.

10. Myths
A myth is a fictional story that usually explains something about the world and involves gods and other supernatural beings.

11. Hades

12. Persephone

14. Mystery
A mystery is a fictional story with characters who try to solve a crime or an unexpected event.

16. Science Fiction
Science fiction is a fictional story involving real or imagined science possibilities.

18. Realistic Fiction
Realistic fiction is a fictional story that takes place in modern times with characters involved in activities that could really happen.

20. Folk Tales
A folk tale is an anonymous, timeless, and placeless story that was originally told rather than written.

21. Historical Fiction
Historical fiction is a fictional story set in the past with characters that take part in actual historical events and interact with real people from the past.

23. Poetry
Poetry is writing with words arranged in a pattern, often using rhymed verse in an imaginative style to express feelings and thoughts.

24. Play or Drama
A play or drama is a story for stage performance by actors.

25. Types of Writing

28. A type of writing that tells a story of an event or experience.
Narrative Writing
A type of writing that tells a story of an event or experience.

29. Informational/Expository
*Gives readers directions or information on ‘how to’ do something.
Expository:
*Gives information about a topic.

30. Descriptive
A type of writing that describes a person, place, thing, or idea. Use words to help your reader see, hear, smell, taste, and feel what you are talking about.

31. A type of writing that gives the writer’s opinion on a topic
Persuasive Writing
A type of writing that gives the
writer’s opinion on a topic
and tries to get the reader
to agree with it.
This writing gives facts to
support the opinion.