Literary Genres
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This document defines and provides brief descriptions of various genres of writing, including expository/nonfiction, biography, autobiography, fantasy, folklore, poetry, mystery, realistic fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction. It explains that expository writing aims to inform using facts, a biography is a third-person account of someone's life, and an autobiography is a first-person telling of one's own life story. It also outlines the key characteristics of fantasy, folklore, poetry, mystery, realistic fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction genres.
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This document categorizes and defines different literary genres including historical fiction, science fiction, nonfiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry, short stories, fairy tales, and folk tales. Historical fiction features fictional characters and events set in the past. Science fiction involves the impact of science and technology, often set in the future or other planets. Nonfiction presents factual information. Mystery, fantasy, poetry, short stories, fairy tales, and folk tales are different types of fictional genres that can involve crime solving, magical elements, emotional verse, brevity, magical creatures, and oral traditions respectively.
Types of stories
There are two main types of stories: fiction and non-fiction. Fiction stories are based entirely on imagination while non-fiction stories are based on real events. Some common types of stories include fables, fairy tales, myths, legends, folk stories, parables, and personal stories. Fables are short fictional stories that usually have talking animals and teach a moral lesson. Fairy tales and fantasy stories include imaginary characters like wizards and princesses and take place in perfect fantasy worlds.
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Fantasy Elements
Fantasy is an imaginative story dealing with supernatural or unnatural events and characters. Elements of fantasy commonly include an other world, unreal characters with human traits, supernatural events, life lessons, time travel, and themes of good versus evil presented through a quest. Some common types of fantasy include fantasy novels, fairytales, science fiction, myths/legends, and folktales/fables.
Myths And Legends
Myths attempt to explain major world events and include heroes and gods. Legends are based on true past events that change over time to become mythical stories usually centered around a real hero. Folk tales are passed down orally with no known author and often have animal characters, while fairy tales take place in invented worlds with magical creatures and are written for children.
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Fantasy Elements
Fantasy is an imaginative story dealing with supernatural or unnatural events and characters. Elements of fantasy commonly include an other world, unreal characters with human traits, supernatural events, life lessons, time travel, and themes of good versus evil presented through a quest. Some common types of fantasy include fantasy novels, fairytales, science fiction, myths/legends, and folktales/fables.
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The document discusses different categories of literary genres within fiction and nonfiction. It identifies the main genres of fiction as realistic fiction, mystery, adventure, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction. The main genres of nonfiction are traditional literature, informational texts, and biographies/autobiographies. For each genre, it provides a brief description of common elements and themes. The purpose is to help students understand how an author's purpose fits within different genres of fiction and nonfiction.
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The document summarizes the history and rise of fantastic literature in Latin America. It discusses how [1] the fantastic genre became more widely utilized by Latin American writers in the mid-1930s, reaching a "Golden Age" from 1940-1965, and [2] how The Book of Fantasy by Borges, Ocampo and Bioy Casares in 1940 was influential in establishing the fantastic as a legitimate literary form in Latin America. It promoted [3] an "international," "open," and "hedonistic" approach that emphasized plot and internal logic over character psychology.
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There are many genres or categories of literature including fiction and non-fiction. Some common fiction genres are realistic fiction, historical fiction, folklore, fairy tales, fantasy, mystery, and science fiction. Realistic fiction tells stories that could really happen, historical fiction takes place in the past, and fairy tales involve magic and good triumphing over evil. Common non-fiction genres include informational books which provide facts, and biographies which tell the true stories of people's lives.
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This document defines and provides examples of different literature genres including realistic fiction, historical fiction, folklore, mystery, science fiction, poetry, and informational writing. Realistic fiction includes stories that could really happen while historical fiction takes place in the past. Folklore comprises traditional stories and myths. Mysteries involve solving a problem through clues. Science fiction blends technology with fiction. Informational writing provides factual information on various subjects. Biographies tell the true stories of people's lives.
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This document provides an overview of various literary genres, including the definitions and key characteristics of different fiction and non-fiction genres. It discusses common fiction genres such as fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, and realistic fiction. It also outlines non-fiction genres like biography, autobiography, and informational writing. The document provides examples to illustrate different genres like myths, legends, fairy tales, drama, and poetry. It concludes with asking the reader to identify the genre of some short literature examples.
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This document defines and describes various literary genres. It discusses the key elements and characteristics of different types of fiction like myths, fables, fantasies, fairy tales, as well as nonfiction genres like biographies, autobiographies, essays, and instruction manuals. It also covers subgenres such as historical fiction, realistic fiction, folk tales, tall tales, legends, and opinions/philosophy. The document provides information on identifying literary genres based on whether they are fiction or nonfiction, the type of writing, format, and style.
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Literary Genres
- 1. TYPES OF GENRES By Ms. Ybarra
- 2. Text that is written to inform and explain and contains facts about real people, things, or events. EXPOSITORY/NONFICTION
- 3. BIOGRAPHY A story about a real person’s life written by another person.
- 4. A story of a real person’s life written by that person. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- 5. FANTASY A story that could not happen in the real world, may include talking animals, magical powers, or make-believe creatures.
- 6. A tale that has been pasted down from generation to generation by word of mouth, often with a message. FOLKLORE
- 7. POETRY A verse written to inspire thought by the reader.
- 8. MYSTERY A suspenseful story about a puzzling event that is not solved until the end.
- 9. REALISTIC FICTION A story that did not happen, but the characters, places, and events seem real.
- 10. A realistic story that takes place sometime in the past. HISTORICAL FICTION
- 11. SCIENCE FICTION A story that futuristic technology with science fact and fiction.