Literary Genre Review

a category of art, music, literature characterized by their content

• Excerpt

• Genre

• Setting

• Multimodal Text

Characters stranded or shipwrecked somewhere and have to survive without help

• Realistic Fiction

• Survival Fiction

• Adventure Fiction

• Mystery Fiction

Characters that usually have to "grow up" and change quickly to stay alive

• Adventure Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Fantasy

• Folktale

Fictional stories involving a setting in the past and some people or events may be true

• Historical Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

• Drama

• Adventure Fiction

Story with a setting in present times and in an ordinary setting

• Realistic Fiction

• Memoir

• Historical Fiction

• Biography

Fictional story where action is centered around the characters who are trying to solve a case.

• Drama

• Adventure Fiction

• Mystery Fiction

• Poetry

A genre of fiction that the stories are written to be performed

• Reader's Theater

• Drama

• Plays

• Performance Poetry

Fictional stories that use stage directions, dialogue, scenes, and acts to tell the story.

• Graphic Novel

• Play

• Memoir

• Drama

Written in stanzas and lines and use figurative language

• Poetry

• Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Lyrics

Text that is factual without opinions

• Historical Journal

• Nonfiction

• Historical Fiction

• Humor