Fiction Genres

Thumbelina is a tiny girl who emerges from a flower. She is captured by a toad, a beetle and then a mouse, who all want to marry her. She successfully avoids their intentions before falling in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size. She receives a pair of wings to accompany her husband on his travels from flower to flower.

• realistic fiction

• fairy tale

• myth

• fable

A story that involves fantasy elements such as witches, goblins, and elves.  These stories often involve a prince and/or princess, this is a...

• Fable

• Folk Tale

• Legend

• Fairy Tale

What kind of story is a fable?

• fiction

• non-fiction

What is a myth? 

• A Nonfiction story that shares facts and takes place in the present

• A fictional story that takes place in the past and includes Gods, Goddesses and magical creatures

• A story about Mrs. Pereira, Mrs. Zeiders, and Ms. Heisler going on a vacation.

Are Myths fiction or nonfiction? 

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

Pandora was the first woman on Earth. Hephaestus created her, using water and earth. Pandora was given a beautiful container – with instructions not to open it under any circumstance. Pandora was curious so she opened it, and all evil contained therein escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to close the container, but the whole contents had escaped, except for one thing that lay at the bottom – Hope. Zeus did not punish Pandora, because he knew this would happen.

• myth

• historical fiction

• fantasy

• sci-fi

Joe Magarac was a sort of patron saint for steel workers. Joe was physically made of steel, after being born inside an ore mountain, to help steelworkers. He would appear out of nowhere at critical moments to protect the steel workers. One story goes that he showed up to stop the falling of a 50-ton crucible, set to fall on a group of steelworkers.

• tall tale

• myth

• historical fiction

• sci-fi

Which of these is not a subgenre of fiction?

• fantasy

• nonfiction

• mystery

• science fiction

Which of these genres would most likely have a character who is a wizard?

• science fiction

• mystery

• fantasy

• horror

Which of these is not something knowing a book’s genre can tell you?

• what to expect from the plot

• what type of story it is

• characteristics it might have

• the characters’ names and ages