Flashcards: Genre Vocabulary
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bh5thgrade on December 21, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adventure | an unusual or exciting experience |
| biography | story of a person's life written by another person |
| fantasy | make believe story that could never happen in the real world |
| mystery | story with an event that arouses curiosity or suspense with a problem to solve using clues |
| humor | writing whose purpose it is to evoke some kind of laughter |
| historical | something that has happened or existed in the past |
| folktale | story preserved through the centuries, usually from an oral tradition, passed from generation to generation |
| realistic | showing people, things, or events as they appear in everyday life |
| nonfiction | factual writing that explains, informs, or describes (rather than entertains) |
| genre | a major category or type of literature |