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- 3. a fiction story that uses funny, exaggerated, or silly events. It explains how something was created or invented.
- 7. a fiction story usually set in the future in an imaginary world or place. This type of literature may involve advanced technology, space, aliens, etc.
- 9. a nonfiction work where the author tells real events about someone else's life, not their own
- 10. a nonfiction work where the author is also the narrator who tells a true story about their own life
- 11. a story about a real or fictional person's good deed. The hero or main character has some type of amazing strength, skill, or power.
- 12. a fiction story that is short with animals as main characters. This type of story teaches a lesson or moral.
- 14. a fiction story that includes a puzzling event or situation that is investigated by the main character who is often a detective.
- 15. a form of text written in stanzas that follows a meter and rhythm with each line and syllable. These often rhyme but don't have to.
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- 1. a fiction story set in a mythical universe and often has talking animals or wizardry/magic.
- 2. a fiction story that contains events and settings that could actually happen in reality. The characters struggle with real-world problems in these stories.
- 4. fiction story set in the past, based on what life was really like during a certain period of time.
- 5. a fiction story often including witches, knights, royalty, fairies, or other magical creatures. Events or items usually occur in sets of 3. This type of story ends happily.
- 6. a fiction story that often has many different versions of the same story from different countries. Fairy Tales and Tall Tales are a type of this genre.
- 8. a fiction story where characters are often gods or goddesses. The story explains (in an untrue way) how things in nature came to be. Many of these stories originated in ancient Greece.
- 13. includes a list or cast of characters and is performed by actors scene by scene.