This morning, please take 5 minutes to review your notes for our unit test on Communication. Please turn in your journals (make sure your name is on or in your journal). After the test, please complete your 2nd poem draft that we started last class. If you finish early, please move on to the following key topic today:
Literary Genres: (taken from the article: Genres of Literature)
- Narrative Nonfiction is information based on fact that is presented in a format which tells a story.
- Essays are a short literary composition that reflects the author’s outlook or point. A short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
- A Biography is a written account of another person’s life.
- An Autobiography gives the history of a person’s life, written or told by that person. Often written in Narrative form of their person’s life.
- A Memoir is an account of a writer's experiences or life events in narrative form. Unlike autobiography, the emphasis is on the story of a true experience, not truth or accuracy itself.
- Speech is the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one’s thoughts and emotions by speech, sounds, and gesture. Generally delivered in the form of an address or discourse.
- Finally there is the general genre of Nonfiction. This is Informational text dealing with an actual, real-life subject. This genre of literature offers opinions or conjectures on facts and reality. This includes biographies, history, essays, speech, and creative or narrative non fiction.
- Drama is stories or work that is written for performance and dramatic art. This genre is stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical or film performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue and action.
- Poetry is verse and rhythmic writing with imagery that evokes an emotional response from the reader. The art of poetry is rhythmical in composition, written or spoken. This genre of literature is for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
- Fantasy is the forming of mental images with strange or other worldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality.
- Humor is the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical. Fiction full of fun, fancy, and excitement which meant to entertain. This genre of literature can actually be seen and contained within all genres.
- A Fable is a story about supernatural or extraordinary people Usually in the form of narration that demonstrates a useful truth. In Fables, animals often speak as humans that are legendary and supernatural tales.
- Fairy Tales or wonder tales are a kind of folktale or fable. Sometimes the stories are about fairies or other magical creatures, usually for children.
- Fantasy is a story based on improbable or imaginative settings, events, and characters. It often includes elements of legend, myth, fables, fairy tales, historical fiction, and science fiction that revolve around heroic and epic events--all untrue or imaginatively examined. It is the opposite style of Realistic Fiction.
- Science Fiction is a story based on impact of potential science, either actual or imagined. Science fiction is one of the genres of literature that is set in the future or on other planets.
- Short Story is fiction of such briefness that is not able to support any subplots.
- Realistic Fiction is a story that can actually happen and is true to real life.
- Folklore are songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a person of “folk” that was handed down by word of mouth. Folklore is a genre of literature that is widely held, but false and based on unsubstantiated beliefs.
- Historical Fiction is a story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting.
- Horror is an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by literature that is frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting. Fiction in which events evoke a feeling of dread in both the characters and the reader.
- Humor is a story that is meant to create laughter, enjoyment, or to point out the foibles or errors of human beings or societies.
- A Tall Tale is a humorous story with blatant exaggerations, swaggering heroes who do the impossible with an here of nonchalance.
- Legend is a story that sometimes of a national or folk hero. Legend is based on fact but also includes imaginative material.
- Mystery is a genre of fiction that deals with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets. Anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown.
- The genre of Fiction can be defined as narrative literary works whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact. In fiction something is feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story.
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