1. What Genre Am I?
Writers create texts in a variety of
styles. Which genre do you like to
read? In which genre do you want to
write?

2. Adventure
Story
• Main theme--Risk
or danger.
• fast-paced plot
focuses on the
actions of the
hero within the
setting

3. • features animals, plants,
inanimate objects, or
forces of nature which
are given human
qualities
• illustrates a moral
lesson

4. Fairy Tale
Fantasy
• magic characters/items, fairies, goblins,
elves, trolls, giants, and talking animals.
• Modern fairy tales use existing fairy tale
plots but set them in today’s world.
• Imaginative setting

5. Legend
• A story usually
about a national
or folk hero.
• Set in a particular
time and place
• partly true and
partly fiction.
• The character
traits of the hero
are typically
exaggerated.

6. Myth
Origin Story
• An event that is meant to serve as an
explanation for some phenomenon of nature
or human behavior.
• Characters are usually gods.

7. Science Fiction
• set in the future or on
other planets
• based on the impact
of actual, imagined, or
potential science.
• Dystopia –
science/humanity
gone wrong

8. • primary focus is on the
relationship and romantic love
between two people
• "emotionally satisfying and
optimistic ending.“
Romance

9. Historical Fiction
• takes place in a historically accurate time and
setting.
• attempt to capture the spirit, manners, and
social conditions of the persons or time(s).
• Dramatize historical figures

10. Realistic
Fiction
• seems real or could
happen in real life
• set in present day and
includes modern day
problems and events

11. Mystery
• Puzzling event or
situation.
• Solving a crime.
• Centered around a
person who investigates
wrongdoing.
• Suspense and secrets

12. Horror
• intended to scare,
unsettle, or horrify the
audience.
• any work of fiction
with a morbid,
gruesome, surreal, or
exceptionally
suspenseful or
frightening theme
• Supernatural

13. Gothic
• combines elements of
both horror and
romance
• mystery, the
supernatural, ghosts,
haunted houses,
castles, darkness,
death, decay, doubles,
madness, secrets, and
hereditary curses

14. Combine Genres For Fun