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- DRAMA
- Stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialog and action
- FABLE
- A narration demonstrating a useful truth, especially in which animals speak to humans; legendary, supernatural tale.
- FAIRY TALE
- Stories about fairies or other magical creatures, usually for children.
- FANTASY
- Fiction with strange or worldly setting, or characters; fiction which invites suspenion of reality.
- FICTION
- Narrative literary works whose contentis prouduced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
- FICTION IN VERSE
- Full length novels with plots subplot(s), theme(s) major and minor characters, in which the narrative is presented in (usually blank) verse form.
- FOLKLORE
- The songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a people or "folk"as handed down by word by mouth.
- HISTORICAL FICTION
- Story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting.
- HORROR
- Fiction which events evoke a feeling of dread in both the characters and the reader.
- HUMOR
- Fiction full of fun, fancy , and excitement, meant to entertain; but can be contained in all genres.
- LEGEND
- Story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, which has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material.
- MYSTERY
- Fiction dealing with the solution of crime or the unraveling of secrets
- MYTHOLOGY
- Legend or traditional narrative, often based in part on historical events, that reveals human behavior and natural phenomena by its symbolism; often pertaining to actions of the gods.
- POETRY
- Verse and rhythmic writing with imagery that creates emotional responses.
- REALISTIC FICTION
- Story that can actually happen and is true to life.
- SCIENCE FICTION
- Story based on impact of actual, imagined, or potential science, usually set in the future or on other planets.
- SHORT STORY
- Fiction of such brevity that it supports no subplots.
- TALL TALE
- Humorous story with blatant exaggerations, swaggering heroes who do the impossible with nonchalance.
- VERSE
- (Sounds like poetry) it has a rhyhm or pattern.
- NARRATIVE
- Writing that has a narrator. Normal speech.
- BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Narrative of a preson's life, a true story about a real person.(Or told by the hisor her self).
- ESSAY
- A short literary composition that refects the author's outlook or point.
- NARRATIVE NONIFICTION
- Factual inormation presented in a format which tells a story.
- SPEECH
- Public adress or discourse.
- NONFICTION
- Informational text dealing with an actual, real-life subject.
- Realistic Fiction
- Fiction story that could happen in real life