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| poetry | verse written to create a response of thought and feeling of the reader, last words on lines usually rhyme |
| biography | story of a real person's life written by another person |
| autobiography | story of a real person's life written by that person |
| nonfiction | texts that provide facts about a variety of topics |
| mystery | a suspenseful story about a puzzling event not solved until the end of the story |
| realistic fiction | a story about madeup characters that could happen in real life |
| historical fiction | a fictional story that takes place in a particular time period |
| fantasy | a story that includes impossible elements like talking animals and magic |
| fable | a made believe story about natural that teaches a lesson or moral |
| tall tale | exaggerated and imaginary stories like John Henry, Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan |
| folktale | stories about animals that have human characteristics and almost always had some sort of wisdom to impart |
| fairy tales | some sort of magical element (princesses, witches, elves, goblins, trolls, fairies) and good will always triumph over evil. |
