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It is a French word for "kind" or "sort is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment, e.g. music, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria.

genre

A story that is imaginative but could never really happen. The setting may be of another world.

fantasy

It is a genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure, especially in a setting other than the real world.

fantasy

A story that takes place in a historically accurate time and setting. The characters and some events are fictional.

historical fiction

A story that is typically set in the future or on other planets. It is based on the impact of actual, imagined, or potential science.

scientific fiction

It provides a mental picture of something that may happen on realistic scientific principles and facts. This fiction might portray

scientific fiction

Often called “sci-fi,”

scientific fiction

genre of literature whose stories focus on a puzzling crime, situation, or circumstance that needs to be solved.

mystery fiction

The term comes from the Latin mysterium, meaning “a secret thing. ” stories can be either fictional or nonfictional, and can focus on both supernatural and non-supernatural topics.

mystery fiction

whodunit

mystery fiction

A story that seems real or could happen in real life. It is set in present day and includes modern day problems and events.

realistic fiction

It contains no fantasy, no supernatural elements, and it usually depicts ordinary people going about the business of daily living,

realistic fiction

stories explored themes related to death, demons, evil spirits, and the afterlife.

horror

literature in the nineteenth century and twentieth centuries often focused on tales involving occult ideas, like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein (1818) or Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897).

horror

Bram Stoker’s Dracula year

1897

Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein year

1818

A story where a protagonist and other major characters and are placed in dangerous situations. The characters must use their wit and skills to defeat the antagonist.

adventure

A brief story that is meant to tell a lesson or a moral.

fable

A story that has magical elements.

fairy tale

A story usually about a national or folk hero.

legend

A humorous story with extreme exaggerations.

tall tale

A story that is often based on a historical event that is meant to serve as an explanation for some phenomenon of nature or human behavior.

myth

from the Latin mysterium, meaning

a secret thing

genre

a technique that shapes narrative to produce an effect on the reader.

literary device

It is an object, character or a concept introduced into the story by the author to introduce its plot

plot device

It refers to unexpected turn of the story that gives a new view on the entire topic.

plot twist

It is a technique used to focus the reader’s, but not the characters’ attention on an object, or location.

flashing arrow

It distracts the reader’s attention from the plot twist. It is used to maintain tension and uncertainty.

red herring

It is a device that the villain uses to try to kill the protagonist and satisfy his own sadistic desires.

death trap

It is a technique where the story begins at the end and works back toward the beginning.

reverse chronology

Characters share with the reader visions of the past or the future to explain a character’s motives.

vision

It refers to series of dreams which allows the character to see events that occur or have occurred in another time

dream sequence

It prevents events from before the current time frame.

analepsis

It presents events that will occur in the future.

prolepsis

It is often used in science fiction to underline their futuristic structures.

prophecy

It is a premonition, much like a flash-forward, but only hints at the future.

foreshadowing

It refers to story endings

ending

It is an abrupt ending that leaves the plot incomplete, without denouement,

cliff hanger

It is is an unexpected finale that gives an entirely new vision on the entire plot.

twist ending

It is a finale when everything ends in the best way for the hero.

happy ending

It is a plot dating back to ancient Greek theater, where the conflict is resolve through a means (god, or dues) that seem unrelated to the story.

deus ex machina

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