| A | B |
|---|
| autobiography | a writer's story about his or her own life |
| biography | the story of a person's life written by someone else |
| dialogue | a conversation between two or mar characters, represented by quotation marks |
| fact | information considered to be true |
| opinion | a belief or judgement based on feelings |
| fiction | a story that is from the writer's imagination, not true |
| non-fiction | writing that is fact based rather than imaginative |
| persuasive | a genre of writing that attempts to convince the readers to follow that point of view |
| mystery | a suspenseful story about a crime or other event, often involves the process of solving a puzzle |
| realistic fiction | a story based on characters and events that could happen in real life |
| science fiction | a story based on imagined future events and may include life on other planets |
| fantasy | a story in which the imagination makes the impossible seem possible, includes magic powers and imagined characters |
| first person point of view | a person's way of thinking about a subject which uses words like I, Me, and My |
| third person point of view | a person's view that is not involved in the story, uses words such as He, She, They |
| genre | a category of literature or art marked by a distinctive style, form, or content |
