Literary genres

An autobiographyThe story of a person’s life, written or told by that person.

A biographyA written account of another person’s life

A fairy taleA simple story, typically of folk origin, dealing with creatures such as elves or fairies.

FantasyImaginative fiction involving magic and adventure.

Historical fictionA story based on historical events or people, but with most of the story fictionalised

Horror/Gothic novelsBooks and stories that involve darkness, evil and the supernatural, and designed to evoke terror or disgust.

A legendAn unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.

Science fictionStories about how people and societies are affected by imaginary scientific developments in the future.

A short storyA story with a fully develope theme but significantly shorter than a novel

Ernest Hemmingway, Edgar Allan Poe …

A thrillerBooks and stories that involve a suspenseful event, often a crime of some type, with the reader using clues from the story to gradually discover what has actually happened.

Quiz

Quote• "I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had

created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened,

and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.”

Character

Friday

Quote“I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and

looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after

looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.”

Character

Myrtle Wilson

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Character

Captain Walton

Quote“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among

the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”

Character

Brad