Flashcards
Genres of books
Cards in this deck (20)
- 1It is an exciting story, where risk and physical danger form the main storyline.Adventure
- 2A story using made-up characters that could happen in real life.Realistic fiction
- 3A story including elements that are impossible such as talking animals or magical powers. Make-believe is what this genre is all about.Fantasy
- 4A suspenseful story about a puzzling event that is not solved until the end of the story.Mystery
- 5A type of fantasy that uses science and technology (robots, time machines, etc.)Science fiction
- 6It is verse written to create a response of thought and feeling from the reader. It often uses rhythm and rhyme to help convey its meaning.Poetry
- 7The story is about a situation or sequence of events that is highly emotional, tragic or turbulent.Drama
- 8The story of a real person’s life written by another person.Biography
- 9The fictional story primary focus on the relationship and romantic life between two people and has an emotional and optimistic ending.Romance
- 10The written work and accompanying illustrations are produced in order to entertain or instruct young people.Children’s
- 11A fictional story that takes place in a particular time period in the past. Often the setting is real, but the characters are made up from the author’s imagination.Historical fiction
- 12A short make-believe story that teaches a lesson. Characters in these stories are usually animalsFable
- 13Factual information which can include biographies, traditional literature and historical books.Non-fiction
- 14It shows events, which happened in real life. The characters were real.History
- 15It is a story about fairies or other magical creatures, usually for children.Fairy tale
- 16You can read about foreign countries. The reports are about the people and the landscape there.Travel
- 17It is a fiction about a committed crime, how the criminal gets caught, and the effects of the crime are shown.Crime / Detective
- 18The scripted fiction is told in pictures drawn by an artist. Usually it is in panels and the text is in speech bubbles.Comic
- 19It is a story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, that has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material.Legend
- 20Dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, etc.Reference book