Forms and genres of fiction and non fiction

• Fiction


  • Imaginary
  • Smallest category
  • Documentation
• Non-Fiction


  • Factual
  • Largest Category
  • Research
• Literature Fiction


  Intelligent thinking skills
• Urban Literature


  • Life on the street
  • America
  • Black American
  • Extreme violence
• Women's Fiction


  For women only
• Historical Romance


  Setting in the past
• Other genres of Fiction

  • Mystery
  • Horror
  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction
  • Myth
• Myth


  • Symbolism
  • Aren't based on facts
  • Legends
  • Exaggerated pacts meant to be passed down
• Forms


  • Novels
  • Novella
  • Short story
• Novella


  Shorter than the novel
• Short story


  One plot
• Character


  • Static Characters
  • Dynamic characters
  • Flat Character
  • Round character
• Static Characters


  Stay the same
• Flat Character


  • Few personality
  • 1-2
• Round character


  3 or more personalities
• Setting


  Time and place
• Point of view


  • First person
  • Second Person
  • Third person
• First person


  me, myself, I
• Second Person


  you, yourself
• Third person


  he, him, she, they
• Plot


  • Exposition/Background
  • Rising Action
  • Climax
  • Falling Action
  • Resolution
• Exposition/Background


  Setting, characterization
• Climax


  • Options
  • Solutions
• Falling Action


  Final solution
• Resolution


  • Theme
  • Idea
  • Ending
  • Result of the solution
• Purpose


  Goal of the writer
• Forms of Non-Fiction


  • Literary Non-Fiction
  • Functional Texts
• Literary Non-Fiction


  • Autobiography
  • Memoir
  • Letters
  • Essay
  • Article
  • Report
• Functional Texts


  • Procedures
  • Instructions
  • Recipes
  • Directions
  • Schedules
  • Maps
  • Applications