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- 3. a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements, often blurring the lines between fantasy and reality.
- 5. Stories in which the writing is the primary draw, these often focus more on characters than plot.
- 6. genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
- 8. Stories set in the real world with a fantastical element, these are distinguished from low fantasy by the thinnest of lines.
- 10. Stories in which the love story is central to the plot and ends happily.
- 12. a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. It is related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres
- 16. detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.
- 18. a fiction genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.
- 19. Gives the history of a person's life, written or told by that person. Often written in narrative form of that person's life.
- 20. fiction typically centers around a grim society in which everything is as bad as can possibly be
- 21. a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized,
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- 1. genre that involves using suspense to create emotional tension within the reader
- 2. Fiction with strange or other worldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality.
- 4. a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings.
- 7. in which descriptions and events are understood to be factual.
- 9. a literary genre that reveals elements of human behavior using symbolism within the writing.
- 11. a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story.
- 13. Narrative literary works whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.
- 14. Fiction set in the past, generally realistic in nature.
- 15. Stories that incorporate humour and wit, often with the intent to entertain or provide social commentary.
- 17. the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.