This document summarizes several common genres of literature including short stories, fables, novels, biographies, dramas, myths, science fiction, historical fiction, romances, mysteries, legends, allegories, epics and poetry. Each genre is defined and an example is provided with the title, author and theme. The genres are grouped into prose fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry.

1. Genre study's
• By:Monicia Andrews

2. Short story
& fable
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A prose narrative shorter than a novel
• legend: a story about mythical or
Elements:a brief, highly unified piece supernatural beings or events
of narrative prose fiction
• Elements:animals, plants,
• Title:the oak tree& the reeds inanimate objects, or forces of
• Author:unknown nature.
• Theme:Pride hath a fall • a moral lesson
• Novel • Title:The ant the Grasshopper
A novel is a long narrative in literary
• Author:W. Somerset Maugham
prose.
• • Theme:Idleness is a curse
elements:a work of prose fiction, longer
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than a short story.
title:To the lighthouse
• .
• author:Virginia Woolf
• theme:Ephemerality

3. Biography
•
& drama
an account of the series of events • a dramatic work intended for performance
making up a person's life. by actors on a stage.
• Elements:published in the form of a book • elements:quarterly arts magazine for
or an essay. contemporary art, design and illustration
• Title:Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young • Title:irony
Girl
• Author: Anne frank
• Author:Juniper L.R. Lenc
• Theme:Family is one • Theme:say things well you have the chance
• •
• autobiography
• a biography of yourself.
• Elements:
the story of one's own life.
• Title:eat,pray,love
• Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
• Theme:forgive and forget
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4. Myth & Science Fiction
• A story that’s like historical and the body • Fiction that includes science
of myths. • Elements :alien creatures and set on
• Elements:a belief regarding some fact or other planets or in different
phenomenon dimensions.
• Title:Pandora's box • Title:just before recess
• Author:unknown • Author:James Vann pelt
• Theme:listen to your parents • Theme:you never know till you look
• Historical Fiction
stories that takes place in a time period
in the past.
• elements:a time past, reconstruct
characters, events, movements,
• Title:A scratch on the nose
• Author:Captain Philippe Millet
• Theme:learn about elders

6. Romance
& Mystery
• a relationship between two lovers. • a story about a crime (usually
• Elements: a story dealing with love murder) presented as a novel or play or
• movie.
love affair
• Elements:understanding and cannot
• Title:love &time
be explained;
• Author:unknown
• Title:The secret of the old clock
• Theme:only time knows how valuable
• Author:Carolyn Keene
love is.
• Theme:pay attention to the
• poetry
smaller thing.
• any talk resembling poetry in beauty
or the evocation of feeling.
• Elements:just like romantic imagery
• Title:love me
• Author:Dianna Doles Petry
• Theme:don’t ever leave your lover

7. Legend
& Allegory
• a story about mythical or supernatural • a short moral story.
beings or events .
• elements:often with animal characters
Elements:narrative of human actions that are
perceived both by teller and listeners. • Title:To a Mouse
title:Legend of the Sleeping Ute • Author: Robert Burns
Mountain
Author:unknown
• Theme:don’t compare me
theme: let people have peace and you
will get peace .
• epic
• a long narrative poem telling of a hero's
deeds.
• elements:very imposing or impressive;
surpassing the ordinary.
• Title:Traveling cupcake
• Author:unknown
• Theme:you never know what you get
till you to after it