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| Fiction | stories with imaginary characters and events |
| Realistic Fiction | stories with characters who take part in activities that could really happen |
| Historical Fiction | stories set in the past with characters who take part in actual historical events |
| Science Fiction | stories involving actual or future scientific phenomena |
| Fantasy | stories set in make-believe worlds, often with non-human characters |
| Mystery | stories with characters who try to solve a crime or unexplained event |
| Nonfiction | true stories of actual events or characters |
| Biography | a person's life story written by another person |
| Autobiography | A person's life story written by himself or herself |
| Reference | information sources such as encyclopedias, yearbooks, directories, and atlases |
| Information | a book or article that introduces the reader to various topical material and "how to" information on various subjects |
| Newspaper | a daily or weekly publication of current events |
| Poetry | words arranged in metrical pattern, often using rhymed verse in an imaginative style |
| Play | a story for stage performance by actors |
| Folk Tale | an anonymous, timeless, and placeless story that was originally told rather than written |
| Fable | story that teaches a moral |
| Free Verse | Poetry that is written like a narrative |
| Epic Poetry | broadly defined genre of poetry, which retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons |
| Drama | Same as a play |
| Tragedy | A public genre from its earliest beginnings |
| Comedy | A public genre from early beginnings as well, but is quite common in our "Movie World" |
| Haiku | a traditional Japanese verse form, notable for its compression and ... 5-7-5 |
| Cinquain | short, unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines were related to but not copied from Japanese literary styles |
| Short Story | A story with only a few pages |
| Limerick | a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet;meant to be funny. They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices. The last line of a good limerick contains the PUNCH LINE or "heart of the joke" |
