good day Scholars this quick little video is about literary genres so remember genres are the types of something so for example the genres of music you could have hip hop you know rock you could have ree classical those are the types of something okay the literary genres are the types of literature so what we consider to be the types of literature right now are fiction non-fiction or expository writing drama poetry folklore and graphic novels now the one thing I want to mention about literary genres is they are evolving or constantly changing when I was growing up graphic novels were not a genre it was just you know seen as a comic but it's actually become so evolved and so changing graphic novels if you look at this genre is where it's a piece of writing typically longer in text you're looking at 50 pages or more and it's presented in comic form but what I mean by that is it's presented in panels but in a graphic novel The dialogue is there the text is very rich we actually divide graphic novels into fiction and non-fiction folklore is one of my favorite genres because it's one that I think often goes undiscovered until we saw the the I guess the charge of the Percy Jackson series myths were kind of on the back burner people didn't talk about them the same way but folklore are really those unknown authors or these retold stories and what we put in there are fairy tales like Cinderella right right or Sleeping Beauty the Legends like The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tall tals like posos Bill or John Henry myths like what you might see in um you know the myth of Theus or Perseus or Hercules and then those fables those stories and nursery rhymes that you kind of grew up with those are all under folklore poetry I think what is really great about poetry is there's so many different forms of it or ways of presenting it whether it's a haiku a limmer a prse um one that has that I Amic pamer a sonnet poetry is really writing that focuses on the beauty of nature feelings and it's expressed really in a form that what I like to say can be created by the author drama a fun and favorite one drama is one where it's written in a script form you have characters who are delivering um the topic through dialogue and that can be a comedy where you see kind of a playoff of each other or tragedy death and destruction non-fiction expository writing is writing that is true and this is what we actually start the school year off with this is where you get personal narratives like Ralph Fletcher's um funeral or you get the Memoir which is his whole book Marshfield um dreams or you get autobiographies biographies essays interviews newspaper articles textbooks reference materials which are things like almanacs atlases encyclopedias dictionaries the Sor um all of those kind of fall in there together fiction is I think a personal favorite because it really is about the writer's imagination and we separate fiction into two major parts short stories which are typically could be read in one sitting and they kind of focus on one topic one theme one problem and then there's novels which are you know to be read over time that's where you get the realistic fiction so fiction that you can Envision the characters living in that particular time period or living today right if it's a story about a girl going to school then that would be something that we could realistically see historical fiction is a story set in the background of a time period um so the time period itself is true and the aspects during that time period may be true but the characters are made up these would be books like aspiron AR Rising um Blood on the River Fever 1793 across five aprils they may be set during the Great Depression or set um in the Civil War the background is um authentic and true but the characters are unique um to that time time period or unique in general I apologize science fiction I think is um really an evolving genre or or sub genre and what you see in science fiction are things like Ender Game it's what we used to put apocalyptic and dystopia in it's where it's this madeup realm or this madeup world and I I say apocalyptic and dystopian with that because that's where we get things like The Hunger Games found Among the Hidden it's these what we would call these madeup time periods and what I say for that is it could be the future it could be the past but it's where a part of society is being challenged in some way then there's also fantasy um you know these are those imaginary dragons things of that like Wings of Fire would be an example of that and then mystery so if you look at this chart in general the reason I felt like it was important to create this and show this for you is because I want you to realize that genres do matter you want to know what book you're reading and why okay where it falls falls under and what your expectations of that piece of literature can be all the genres are peer so you have fiction non-fiction expository writing drama poetry folklore graphic novels and then these are called sub genres they're underneath these major genres okay you'll notice I did put some little monsters here and that's really because they're all different as is our literature all right have a great day and thanks for listening to the video