Genres Categories for books. Genres are types or categories that writing falls into.

GenresCategories for books

Genres are types or categories that writing

falls into.

Copyright 2012 Jane Kotinek

Each genre has a specific purpose and characteristic

that designates which category (or genre) it

belongs to.


What is genre?

Genre is the category or type of writing.

• Each genre has a purpose.• Each genre has specific characteristics

What does this mean?!


Think of genres as video games. There is

the BIG category of video games. You don’t play all the

types of video games, do you?

Maybe you like video games that play sports or music karaoke.


You have just categorized the video

games you like to play. That is what genre does. It puts the

writings in categories.


Genre

Fiction

Realistic Fiction

Fantasy Stories

Nonfiction

Personal Narrative

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Here is an example of

the categories.


We will start with fiction. Fiction includes

literary texts about made up stories.

Fictional stories have characteristics that are

different from nonfiction texts.


There are many different

types of fictional books.

Types of Fictional Books

You will want to write these down.

1. Realistic Fiction- characters and events are made up. The situations could occur. Shiloh

2. Fantasy Stories- These are made up stories that couldn’t be true. Fables and Fairy Tales

3. Historical Fiction- Stories that occur in places and times that are real. The characters are made up. Fever 1793


Types of Fiction continued…

4. Mystery Stories- The story evolves around suspense, unexplained, or strange events that the characters try to solve. Deep and Dark and Dangerous.

5. Myths and Legends- traditional stories told in cultures around the world. They were created to explain natural events that people could not understand. King Arthur’s Court, Medusa, Folklore

6. Science Fiction (sometimes Science Fiction is given it’s own category)- real and imagined stories that include science and technology as the main basis. Star Trek, The Maze Runner

7. Tall Tales- A story that tells about a larger-than-life character in a realistic setting. Paul Bunyan


Let’s see if you understand how to categorize fiction.

Identify which type of fictional writing the following books belong to.

Science Fiction

Legend

(Horror) Mystery

Fantasy

Realistic

Mystery

Science Fiction

Historical

Myth1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9


You are doing a FANTASTIC job! What questions do you

have about categorizing fiction?


Let’s move on to nonfiction books.

Nonfiction Genres

If fiction books are about made up stories, what kind

of stories will nonfiction books include?


That’s correct! Nonfiction books are

any literary text that tells a story

about a real event, person, or idea.

Personal Narratives

Biographical Narratives

Blogs

Diary and Journal Entries

Eyewitness

Accountsmemoirs

Reflective Essays


Personal Narratives- true stories about the author’s life. Autobiographical essays

2. Biographical Narratives- A story about someone else’s life. Biography

7. Blogs- online journals that may include all of the above.

3. Diary and Journal Entries- Writer’s keep a written account of their life. They include their thoughts and feelings.4. Eyewitness Accounts- The writer shares his thoughts about a specific event they witnessed.

6. Memoirs- Usually focus on a specific period in a person’s life.

5. Reflective Essays- literary text about the personal experiences and observations of either the writer or someone else’s experiences.

You should take notes!

Nonfiction Narration

1.


Poetry and Description is the next category.

Poetry and Description is its own category because it uses a different type of writing to express ideas and feelings. The subject could be personal, historical, or made up. Poetry uses literary devices (repetition, alliteration, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhythm, etc.) to convey it’s message.


Types of Poetry

Ballad- a form of lyric poetry that expresses the poet’s emotions toward someone or something. • Ballads typically rhyme and may contain refrains that

repeat. • Ballads are easily put to music.• Ballads were often passed down orally.Free Verse- poetry that has no rhyme, rhythm, or form.

Prose Poem- non-verse writing. Often takes the form of a short story.

Sonnet- rhyming lyric poetry with a set of rules. It is 14 lines long, each line has 10 syllables and every other syllable is accented.

Haiku- non-rhyming Japanese poem. 7-5-7 sequence. Usually about nature.


Exposition

Expository text is based on facts. It’s purpose is to inform or explain.

Expository text uses specific structure to deliver the necessary information.


Throughout your life, you will read more expository text than any other kind

of genre.Why do you think this

statement is true? Give examples of expository

texts.


Here are some examples of expository text:

Rental agreements, credit card applications, Employee handbooks,

directions for completing/putting something together, college books, buying a home contract, insurance claims, getting a checking/savings

account, contracts, t.v. guide, maps, mapquest directions, travel

plans, newspapers, magazines, “how-to” directions, recipes,

operating manuals, etc.


After reading and discussing expository text examples, you should be able to understand why learning to read

expository text very, very important.


Let’s review.

Fictional text is _______? Stories that are made up.

Nonfiction text is ________? Real

Fiction or Nonfiction?

fiction nonfiction nonfiction


What type of fiction are the following books?

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