LITERARY

GENRES
 WARM-UP ACTIVITY: YOUR FAVORITE BOOK

• Think of your favorite book.

• What is the title?
• Who is the main character?
• Describe the story?
• Are the characters real or
fake?
Non-Fiction vs Fiction

• Fiction refers to literature created from the imagination.

• Non-fiction refers to literature based in fact.

Fiction

• It’s a make-believe story.

• It has characters.
• It has a setting.
• There is a beginning, middle and end of the story.
• It entertains you!
Non-fiction

• It is true.
• It has real people, places, events, and things.
• It gives you information.
• There is not always a beginning, middle, and end of story. (The
story can begin at any point in time.)
 True or False?

Fiction includes stories with real people.

 True or False?

Non-fiction gives readers information.

 True or False?

Non-fiction has a beginning, middle, and end

of the story.
 Types of Fiction

Fantasy Realistic Mystery

Fiction

Traditional Historical Science

Literature Fiction Fiction • These are the
main types of
fiction.
 Fantasy Mystery

• A story including • A suspenseful story about

elements that are a puzzling event that is
impossible - such as not solved until the end
talking animals or of the story
magical powers.
• Make-believe is what this
genre is all about.
 Realistic Historical
Fiction Fiction

• A story using made-up • A fictional story that takes

characters that could place in a particular time
happen in real life. period in the past.
• Often the setting is real,
but the characters are made
up from the author's
imagination.
 Traditional Science
Literature Fiction

• Stories that are passed • A type of fantasy that

down from one group to uses science and
another in history. technology
• This includes folktales,
legends, fables, fairy
tales, tall tales, and
myths from different
countries.
 Historical Fiction
Examples of Fiction

Fantasy
Traditional
Literature

Mystery

Realistic
Fiction

Science Fiction
Video: Introduction to Genre
Types of Nonfiction

• These are the main types of non-fiction.

Informational Biography Autobiography

Informational

• Texts that provide facts about a variety of topics (sports, animals,

science, history, careers, travel, geography, space, weather, etc.)
 Biography Autobiography

• The story of a real person's • The story of a real person's

life written by another life that is written by that
person. person.
Examples of Non-Fiction

Autobiography

Biography

Informational
Poetry

• Poetry is verse written to create a response of thought and feeling

from the reader.
How to Make A Bingo Card

• Take a blank sheet of paper

• Draw a table with 5 ROWS and 5 COLUMNS
Choose ONE Box and write “Free Space”
 Fill the empty with the genres below.
You must two boxes for the same genre.
Historical Fiction = HF Informational = I HF A I B RF
Science Fiction = SF Mystery = M
Poetry = P Fantasy = Fa
TL Fa M Free SF
Biography = B Traditional Literature = Space
Realistic Fiction = RF TL
Autobiography = A B P NF P HF
Nonfiction = NF
Fiction = Fi
NF Fi RF I Fa

You can use abbreviations instead of

SF A M Fi TL
writing the entire word.
EXAMPLE
How To Play Bingo

• For each description you have to identify the correct literary

genre
• When you figure out the correct genre you can mark ONE box with
the genre name
• When you have mark five boxes in a row, yell “BINGO”
Example: Name that genre.
• ____________ is a suspenseful story about a puzzling event that is
not solved until the end of the story.
• ______________ is a make-believe story.
 Name the genre.

• Title: “I Am Malala”
• Author: Malala Yousfzai
• ______________ is true.
• ______________ gives you information.
 Name the genre.

• Title: “A Tale of Two Cities”

• Description: The novel take places

during the French Revolution. The
French Doctor Manette (fictional
character), is imprisoned for 18
years in Paris and after his release
he meets his daughter Lucie for the
first time.
• Fantasy, Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Traditional Literature,
Historical Fiction, and Science Fiction are types of _________.
Name the genre.
 Name the genre.

Title: “Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory”
• Description: When Willy Wonka
decides to let five children
into his chocolate factory, he
decides to release five golden
tickets in five separate
chocolate bars, causing
complete mayhem.
• ____________ is a story passed down from one group to another in
history.
 Name the genre.

• Title: “Albert Einstein

• Authors: Alice Calaprice and Trevor Lipscombe
• _____________ includes texts that provide facts about a variety of
topics. (history, careers, travel, geography, etc.)
• _____________ is verse written to create a response of thought
and feeling from the reader.
 Name the genre.

• Title: “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”

• Description:
• Detective Poirot must figure out how
killed his friend, Roger Ackroyd.
• ____________ includes elements that are impossible such as
magical powers.
Name the genre.
• ____________ is a story using made-up characters that could
happen in real life.
 Name the genre.

Title: “Frankenstein”
Description: Author Mary Shelley that tells the
story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist
who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in
an unorthodox scientific experiment.
• ____________ is a fictional story where the setting is often real
but the characters are made up from the author’s imagination.
• ____________ includes folktales, legends, fables, fairy tales, tall
tales, and myths from different countries.
 Name the genre.

• Title: “The Greatest: My Own Story”

• Author: Muhammad Ali
• ____________ is a type of fantasy that uses science and
technology.
• _____________ is a story of a real person’s life written by another
person.
 Name the genre.

• Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-

year-old girl with cancer, is
forced by her parents to
attend a support group
where she meets and falls in
love with 17-year-old
Augustus Waters, an ex-
basketball player and
amputee.
• Hazel and Augustus are NOT
real people.
• ______________ entertains you.
• ______________ has real people, places, and events.
• ______________ refers to literature created from the imagination.
• ______________ refers to literature based in fact.
• ______________ has a beginning, middle, and end.
• ______________ can begin at any point in time. (It does not
always have a beginning, middle, and end.)
• Informational, Biography, and Autobiography are types of
_____________.
 Name the genre.

Title: “Cinderella”

Description: A folk
tale embodying
a myth-element of
unjust oppression and
triumphant reward.
• _____________ is a story of a real person’s life that is written by
that person.