DIFFERENT TYPES OF LITURATURE

Historical fiction is fiction that is set in the past. It may contain references to actual people and significant events in history.
Example -the short story
“The Dog of Pompeii”is is set in a real time and place, but the characters are fictional.

• Drama-A drama or play is a form of literature meant to be performed to an an audience.
• Examples: “A Mid
Summer Nights Dream” by William Shakespeare

• A folk tale is a simple story that has been passed down from generation to generation by mouth.
The characters are usually common people
• Examples:Rapunzel

•A tall tale is a humorous,exaggerated story.
•The stories Paul Bunyan and
Pecos Bill

An essay is a short work of nonfiction that deals with a single subject. You can express ideas or feelings to analyze a topic.
•An exAmple is “All i really needed to know I learned in kindergArten” by
Robert fulghum

• The True life story, of a person written by another person.
• Example: The
Pride of Puerto
Rico by Robert
Paul Walker

• A person’s true life story told by that person.
• Example: “The Story of My Life”, by Helen
Keller

A fairy tale is a fantasy story that has royalty (princesses , kings, and queens) as main characters and usually a lot of magic.
Example- “The Little
Mermaid” and “Sleeping
Beauty” by Hans Christian
Anderson

A short story is a form of fiction that is between 5-30 pages and has all of the elements of fiction in a fiction novel. (setting, conflict, plot, theme, etc) short story can be any type of fiction, or biography and autobiography
“Cricket in the Road” is a perfect example of a short story by Michael Anthony

A fable is a brief story that teaches a lesson about life.
In many fables, the characters are animals that act and speak like human beings.
A fable often ends with a moral a statement that summarizes its lesson. “The wolf and the
House Dog” is an example of a fable.

• A type of literature, in which ideas, images and feelings are expressed- written in verse
• Example: “I’m
Nobody! Who Are
You?” by Emily
Dickinson

Literature that contains at least one or more fantastic or unreal element. Example: “ThePhantom Tollbooth”, by: Norton Juster

L e g e nd s
A legend is a story that is handed down from the past and may be stretched over time- based on a real person, but exaggerated over time.
Examples: Daniel Boone, Johnny Apple seed, and Buffalo bill

A type of fiction that is set in the future or on other planets and focuses on possible advancement in science, or what the future may hold.
Example- “The Fun They Had” by
Isaac Asimov

Non fiction resources used to getting facts.
Examples: encyclopedia, dictionary, almanac, atlas, essays,
Internet, thesaurus etc.