Genres

2. A story or group of stories that form part of the traditional knowledge of a society. They are often use imaginative plots and characters to explain how the world began.
3. There are different types of these stories, but usually a crime has been committed and the reader wants to try to figure out “whodunit”. There is usually a great deal of suspense and intrigue abounds.
4. A true account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by another.
6. The biography of a person written by that person.
8. This is a type of modern fantasy explores scientific fact and can pose ethical questions about current scientific trends and predictions.
11. These stories usually have a moral that is being taught. It often uses animals that speak and act like humans.

1. Categories used to group different types of literary work, such as non-fiction, fiction and poetry.
5. This genre has a magical world where anything is possible. There are many types of these from fables to fairy tales and may include magical beings, talking animals and gods and goddesses.
7. It may have rhythm (beat), rhyme and creative way by describing or exciting words.
9. This can also be called “informational” material. These types of books provide information that is factual. Nothing is make-believe in these types of materials.
10. Some of the features in this genre are that can tell about things that could happen.