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fiction genre
Question | Answer |
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Tall Tale | A story that includes exaggerations, bigger than life characters and events |
Myth | A story that answers questions about things that people cannot explain. It may include characters such as Gods and goddesses and journeys that heroes go on called heroic quests. |
Fantasy | Contains unrealistic or unworldly elements and includes elements that are impossible such as talking to animals or magical powers. |
Science Fiction | A type of fantasy that is based on current or future scientific and technological developments. |
Short Story | Has a plot, characters and a setting and are shorter and less complicated than a novel. |
Realistic fiction | Drawn from the writers imagination using made up characters but could happen in real life. |
Historical Fiction | Drawn from the writers imagination but is true to life in some period of the past. |
Mystery | A suspenseful story about a puzzling event that is not solved until the end of the story. |
Folk Tale | A story or legend handed down from generation to generation usually by oral retelling. |
Fable | A short story that teaches a lesson and has a moral to the story and uses animals that talk and act like humans. |
Poetry | Verse written to create response of thought and feeling from the reader. It often uses rhythm and rhyme. |
Fairy Tale | A kind of folktale or fable which includes witches, giants,queens,elves,dragons,talking animals,ogres,fairies,etc... Marvelous and magical things happen to characters. |