The document outlines various literary genres, categorizing them into nonfiction and fiction. Nonfiction includes narrative nonfiction, essays, biographies, autobiographies, and speeches, while fiction encompasses drama, poetry, fantasy, short stories, humor, fables, fairy tales, science fiction, realistic fiction, folklore, historical fiction, horror, tall tales, legends, mysteries, mythology, and fiction in verse. Each genre is defined with a brief description highlighting its key characteristics.
The document outlines various literary genres, categorizing them into nonfiction and fiction. Nonfiction includes narrative nonfiction, essays, biographies, autobiographies, and speeches, while fiction encompasses drama, poetry, fantasy, short stories, humor, fables, fairy tales, science fiction, realistic fiction, folklore, historical fiction, horror, tall tales, legends, mysteries, mythology, and fiction in verse. Each genre is defined with a brief description highlighting its key characteristics.
The document outlines various literary genres, categorizing them into nonfiction and fiction. Nonfiction includes narrative nonfiction, essays, biographies, autobiographies, and speeches, while fiction encompasses drama, poetry, fantasy, short stories, humor, fables, fairy tales, science fiction, realistic fiction, folklore, historical fiction, horror, tall tales, legends, mysteries, mythology, and fiction in verse. Each genre is defined with a brief description highlighting its key characteristics.
The document outlines various literary genres, categorizing them into nonfiction and fiction. Nonfiction includes narrative nonfiction, essays, biographies, autobiographies, and speeches, while fiction encompasses drama, poetry, fantasy, short stories, humor, fables, fairy tales, science fiction, realistic fiction, folklore, historical fiction, horror, tall tales, legends, mysteries, mythology, and fiction in verse. Each genre is defined with a brief description highlighting its key characteristics.
Literary Genres Week 1: From February 12th, to 16th, 2024 Literary Genres Types of Nonfiction: Narrative Nonfiction: is information based on fact that is presented in a format which tells a story.
Essays: are a short literary composition that reflects the
author’s outlook or point. A short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
A Biography: is a written account of another person’s life.
An Autobiography: gives the history of a person’s life, written or told by that person. Often written in Narrative form of their person’s life.
Speech: is the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication;
ability to express one’s thoughts and emotions by speech, sounds, and gesture. Generally delivered in the form of an address or discourse.
Nonfiction: is Informational text dealing with an actual, real-life
subject. This genre of literature offers opinions or conjectures on facts and reality. This includes biographies, history, essays, speech, and narrative nonfiction. Nonfiction opposes fiction and is distinguished from those fiction genres of literature like poetry and drama. Literary Genres
Genres of Fiction:
Drama: is the genre of literature that’s subject for
compositions is dramatic art in the way it is represented. This genre is stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue and action. Poetry: is verse and rhythmic writing with imagery that evokes an emotional response from the reader. The art of poetry is rhythmical in composition, written or spoken. This genre of literature is for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
Fantasy: is the forming of mental images with strange or other
worldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality.
Short Story: is fiction of such briefness that is not able to
support any subplots. Humor: is the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical. Fiction full of fun, fancy, and excitement which meant to entertain. This genre of literature can actually be seen and contained within all genres.
A Fable: is a story about supernatural or extraordinary people
Usually in the form of narration that demonstrates a useful truth. In Fables, animals often speak as humans that are legendary and supernatural tales.
Fairy Tales or wonder tales: are a kind of folktale or fable.
Sometimes the stories are about fairies or other magical creatures, usually for children. Science Fiction: is a story based on impact of potential science, either actual or imagined. Science fiction is one of the genres of literature that is set in the future or on other planets.
Realistic Fiction: is a story that can actually happen and is true
to real life.
Folklore: are songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a person of
“folk” that was handed down by word of mouth. Folklore is a genre of literature that is widely held, but false and based on unsubstantiated beliefs.
Historical Fiction: is a story with fictional characters and events
in a historical setting. Horror: is an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by literature that is frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting. Fiction in which events evoke a feeling of dread in both the characters and the reader.
A Tall Tale: is a humorous story with blatant exaggerations,
swaggering heroes who do the impossible with a here of nonchalance.
Legend: is a story that sometimes of a national or folk hero.
Legend is based on fact but also includes imaginative material. Mystery: is a genre of fiction that deals with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets. Anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown.
Mythology: is a type of legend or traditional narrative. This is
often based in part on historical events, that reveals human behavior and natural phenomena by its symbolism; often pertaining to the actions of the gods. A body of myths, as that of a particular people or that relating to a particular person. Fiction in Verse: is full-length novels with plot, subplots, themes, with major and minor characters. Fiction of verse is one of the genres of literature in which the narrative is usually presented in blank verse form.
The genre of Fiction can be defined as narrative literary works
whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact. In fiction something is feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story. Thanks
