| Term | Definition |
|---|
| fiction | invented story with imaginary characters and events |
| play | a story for stage performance by actors and actresses |
| non-fiction | true stories of actual events or characters |
| folk tale | an anonymous, timeless, and placeless story that was originally told rather than written |
| poetry | words arranged in a metrical pattern often using rhyme verse in an imaginative style |
| Purpose of Fiction | entertainment |
| realistic fiction | is a fictional story with characters that take part in activities that could really happen |
| mystery | is a fictional story with characters that try to solve a crame or an unexplained event |
| fantasy | a fictional story set in a make-believe world, often with non-human characters |
| historical fiction | a fictional story with characters that take part in actual historical events and interact with from the past. |
| science fiction | a fictional story involving actual or projected scientific phenomena. |
| folk literature | part of folk tale (oral tradition) |
| genre | there are 5 major types: fiction, poetry, play, folk tale, and non-fiction |
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