Genres and Sub-Genres Flashcards
A genre in which syntax is used to create specific effects, such as pattern of rhyme or meter.
Poetry
What are four types of poems?
Haiku
Ciniquian
Limerick
Narrative Poem
Define genre
A type or class of literary work
Define sub-genre
A more specific type of class of literary work.
The two major genres in children’s literature is:
Poems
Prose
A genre in which syntax is used to convey a literal meaning rather than patterns of rhyme or meter.
Prose
What are the 2 major genres of prose
Fiction
Non-Fiction
What are the two major sub-genres of fiction?
Realism
Fantasy
What are 3 sub-genres of realism?
Realistic Stories
Animal Realism
Historical Realism
Portrays animals exactly as they appear and behave in our lives and in the natural world with no attempt at human characteristics.
Animal Realism Sub-Genre
Portrays lives, ways of life or events that are not and never have been possible (at least at the time the work was written).
Fantasy Genre
Often include realistic elements, but will present supernatural characters or animals with abilities.
Fantasy Stories Sub-Genre
Encompasses literary works that have origins in oral tradition.
Folk Literature Sub-Genre
What are 5 types of Folk Literature Sub-Genres?
Folk Tales Fairy Tales Fables Myths Legends
Define Myth
Folk tales created to explain why the world has come to be the way it is. Often have supernatural elements.
What are 2 types of Non-Fiction Sub-Genre?
Information books
Biography
What are 2 examples of information books?
Encyclopedia
Atlas
What are 4 types of Biography?
Autobiography
Fictional Biography
Authentic Biography
Biographical Fiction
What are 2 types of Authentic Biography and what do they mean?
- Partial Biography: A specific event in a limited period of a person’s life is described.
- Complete Biography: Gives us a partial or complete biography of a group of people which emphasizes the impact of their activities as a group.
Tells us about events or the lives of people from the past, but does so through the perspective of invented characters.
Biographical Fiction Sub-Genre
The events of a person’s life as written by that person him/herself.
Autobiography Sub-Genre
What are Narrative Poems?
Longer poems which tell a story.
Define Fiction as a Sub-Genre
Fiction presents information that is imagined by the author. Some factual information may be present
