Genres of Fiction

Genres of Fiction

Genres of Fiction

Genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre. A number of major literary figures have written genre fiction.

Genres of Fiction

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Epic poetry

Detective novel

Autobiography

Thriller

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Tragedy

Autobiography

Gives the history of a person's life, written or told by that person. Often written in narrative form of that person's life.

Mostly, autobiographies are written in first-person point of view. This means that the narrator, or person telling the story, is also in the story. You can tell if a story is written in first-person if the narrator uses the personal pronouns I, me, and my.

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There are generally four important components of any autobiography: The description of your life, what life really means to you, the vision of your future and the conclusion.

10 Best Autobiographies Everyone Should Read At Least Once In Their Lives

1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

2. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

3. The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

4. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

5. Chronicles, Vol 1 by Bob Dylan

6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

8. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography by Agatha Christie

9. Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

10. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

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Epic poetry

An epic is a long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person or a group of persons. Elements that typically distinguish epics include superhuman deeds, fabulous adventures, highly stylized language, and a blending of lyrical and dramatic traditions.

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Epic poetry refers to long poems which are modelled on a range of classical epics. These include: Ancient Greek poems, such as: Homer's Iliad, which tell the stories of the fall of the city of Ilium. Homer's Odyssey, which recounts the adventures of Odysseus.

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Thriller

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Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. Successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

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• A good story.
• An action-packed opening chapter.
• A likeable protagonist.
• Multiple points-of-view.
• Cliffhangers.
• Teach us something
• An epic ending

7 Elements That Make A Good Thriller

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Detective novel

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, and Hercule Poirot.

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Sherlock Holmes is the British fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Following the success of Sherlock Holmes, many mystery writers imitated Doyle's structure in their own detective stories and copied Sherlock Holmes's characteristics in their own detectives.

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Tragedy

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The aim of tragedy, Aristotle writes, is to bring about a "catharsis" of the spectators — to arouse in them sensations of pity and fear, and to purge them of these emotions so that they leave the theater feeling cleansed and uplifted, with a heightened understanding of the ways of gods and men.

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