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Title: Genres in Fiction


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Genres in Fiction
Cheryl Youse Colquitt County High School
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Narrative writing tells a story or part of a story
Fiction means the story is NOT true
Genre means a type or style of writing
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Fantasy
  • Has elements that are not realistic
  • Talking animals
  • Magical powers
  • Mythical beings

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  • Fantasy can be divided further into
  • Science fiction AND
  • Folklore, which includes
  • Folk Tales
  • Tall Tales
  • Fairy tales
  • Fables
  • Myths
  • Legends

Fantasy
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Science Fiction
  • Like fantasy, but must include MACHINES
  • Partly true scientific theories
  • Settings space, the future, a different world,
    universe

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FOLK TALES
  • Fictional stories handed down by retelling
  • No known author
  • Once upon a time
  • Repetition
  • Numbers 3 or 7
  • Transformations
  • Trickery or magic

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Fairy Tales
  • Magic
  • Enchantment
  • Royalty
  • Supernatural
  • Original or have named authors

Rapunzel
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Fables
  • Very short stories with a moral or lesson
  • Characters are animals that act like human
  • They do not change but do learn

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Myths
  • Stories told as if they were fact
  • Usually involve gods, goddesses, supernatural
    powers
  • Happened a long time ago
  • Often deal with creation of the world

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Legends
  • Set in historic, less-remote past
  • Based on real life hero and his/her deeds
  • Not generally religious
  • Humans, not gods, are main characters

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Possible Fiction
  • Events that might or might have happened
  • Historical Fiction
  • Realistic Fiction

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Historical Fiction
  • Real person with imagined accounts of what
    happened
  • Real event with imaginary person

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Realistic Fiction
  • Stories that take place in here and now
  • Characters are involved in events that could
    happen

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Mystery
  • Has
  • Strangeness
  • Solving a puzzle
  • Solving a crime
  • Centered around a person who investigates
    problems
  • Centered around person whose job is to get secret
    information

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Genres in fiction can be
  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction
  • Folklore
  • Possible Fiction
  • Historical Fiction
  • Realistic fiction (contemporary)
  • Mystery
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