Genre

Genre is just a fancy word that means a style of writing. All literature can be divided into two basic categories: fiction and non-fiction.

=Non-Fiction=


 * Informational || books that explain a subject or concept using facts about the real world ||
 * **Poetry and Verse** || Condensed language, expression of imaginative thoughts and perceptions, often containing rhythm and other devices of sound, imagery, and figurative language. ||
 * **Biography** || An account of a person's life, or part of a life history by someone else or the person him or herself. Includes, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, diaries, journals. ||
 * **Autobiography** || a biography written by the person ||
 * **Autobiography** || a biography written by the person ||

=Fiction=
 * **Folktale** || Traditional stories, myths, legends, nursery rhymes, and songs from the past. Oral tradition with no known author, passed on from generation to generation. ||
 * || **fairy tale** - takes place in a magical land ruled by royalty, the characters are either good or evil and almost always has a happy ending.


 * tall tale**- unbelievable exaggerations told as if it were true and meant to be funny.


 * fable** - short story where the characters are usually personified animals that teaches a moral or a lesson.


 * legend**- usually has some connection to a real historical person or event, combining factual and fictional events with exaggerations that are not meant to be funny.


 * myth** - explains something about the world such as frightening or mysterious natural forces or how something came to be ||
 * **Fantasy** || Stories set in places that do not exist, about people and creatures that could not exist or events that could not happen. Make-believe and imaginative worlds. ||
 * **Science Fiction** || Based on extending physical laws and scientific principles to their logical outcomes, usually futuristic. Describes worlds that are plausible and could exist someday. ||
 * **Realistic Fiction** || Stories could happen in the real world; characters seem real; contemporary setting. ||
 * **Historical Fiction** || Stories reconstruct life in the past, using realistic actual and fictional characters, events and historical setting. ||