Genre
By: THE Shubham
Adventure
An adventure genre book is has explorations. It usually incorporates suspenseful puzzles and ransoms. The main character(s) is/are usually trying to retrieve or save something or someone.
Example: The Hunger Games
Mystery
Mystery is a sub genre of narrative fiction, often referred to as a detective story. There is almost always a puzzle or trouble that needs to be solved.
Example: Sherlock Holmes
Romance
This book is usually when two or more people like each other and are going through struggles to stay together.
Example: The Fault In Our Stars
Thriller
A book that uses suspense, tension and excitement as its main elements. Usually scary.
(Caution: Can sometimes make you sweaty.)
Example: The Zombie Room
Fantasy
A book of imaginary things, most certainly things that are impossible or improbable.
Biography
Biography is book that is written about someones life. Biography is usually written on famous or popular people. These books are nonfiction, meaning that they are based on true facts.
Auto Biography
Someone who wrote facts about their own life.
Humor
The main goal of this genre is to make the reader laugh. Often combined with other elements such as romance and action/adventure..
Memoir
Events based on writer’s observation, can only have one event that’s memorable in the author’s life. Memoirs can be fictionalized for children.
Historical Fiction
Depictions of real historical figures in imagined situations.
Realistic Fiction
A story that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting. These stories resemble real life, and fictional characters within these stories react similarly to real people.
Science Fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which stories often tell about science and technology of the future. It is important to note that science fiction has a relationship with the principles of science- these stories involve part true- part fiction laws of theories of science.
Bibliography
- http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson927/SciFiDefinition.pdf
- http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/what-is-realistic-fiction-definition-characteristics-examples.html#lesson
- http://querytracker.blogspot.com/2009/04/defining-genres-where-does-your-book.html
- http://fmwriters.com/Visionback/Issue34/historicalfic.htm