Genre Vocabulary

Look up each term in the Handbook of Literary Terms starting on p. 938 in your literature book. Define each term (only write the definition - not all the extra stuff after the definition!) in your notebook, not your reader response journal.

1. genre
2. fiction
3. realistic fiction*
4. fantasy
5. science fiction (leave room for extra info)
6. historical fiction
7. mystery*
8. nonfiction
9. biography
10. autobiography
11. essay
12. fairy tale
13. folk tale
14. legend
15. oral tradition
16. fable
17. memoir
18. poetry
19. myth
20. drama

*These terms are not in the literature book. You need to look them up on your own (e.g., online or in the dictionary)

Due Monday at the end of literature