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Genre Study Guides
genres
Question | Answer |
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short story, talking animals, has a moral, very few characters, good over bad behavior | fable genre |
could have real places, real events, characters seem real, and actions seem real to the reader but probably weren't | realistic fiction |
a problem, solution, detective, villain, clues, victim, sidekick, "Who has done it?" | mystery genre |
explains why things happen in nature, gods and goddesses, usually bad behavior | myth |
takes place in the past, sometimes uses real places, characters could be real or made up | historical fiction |
actions can't be real, settings don't exist, creatures may or may not exist, events could not happen in real life | fantasy |
hyperboles! unreal events | folktale |
written by someone about themselves, real facts and in order of happenng in their life, may be part or all of their life | autobiography |
written about a person by another person, real facts, in order of the happening, may be part or all of their life | biography |
I, me, we, our, us, my, our, mine | first person narrator is in the story |
them, she, he, they, their, it, his, her, you | third person is out of the story |