Literary Genres

3. / story told from generation to generation, different versions in different cultures, original story teller often unknown
5. / stories that are made up
7. / story describes real-life problems and events
10. / written in the 1st person, person writes about their own life
13. / includes magical worlds, talking animals, or other impossibilities
15. / the number of categories in the Dewey Decimal System
16. / facts about a variety of topics
18. / gods & goddesses sometimes appear in disguised form
19. / the classification system used with non-fiction books
21. / evokes a feeling of fright in both the character and the reader
22. / a particular style or type of writing
23. / includes an extraordinary person, exaggeration, and an explanation

1. / dealing with the solution of a crime or unraveling of secrets
2. / written in stanzas, may include patterns of rhymes
3. / begins with ‘once upon a time’ or ‘long, long ago…’, settings are often a castle or forest
4. / real or imagined inventions, space travel, or life in other worlds
6. / story that takes a reader back to a particular time period
8. / the address of a book
9. / written in the 3rd person, a true story written about someone else’s life
11. / accounts of real people, places, and events
12. / the person that created the Dewey Decimal System
14. / short story usually involving animal characters and teaches an important life lesson
17. / contain a moral or a lesson, story handed down from the past that people tell as a ‘true story’
20. / presented to an audience, has a cast of characters, has a dialogue the actors say