Fantasy GenreFantasy is characterized by imaginary and unrealistic elements. Fantasies typically involve supernatural powers, like magic and magical creatures. Fantasy stories often contain elements of Medievalism, such as castles, knights, kings, magical swords, and references to ancient spells....
Literature in the Fantasy Genre Dracula The Neverending Story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Graveyard Book Wheel of TimeSeries The Black Cauldron The Chronicles of Narnia The Once and Future King A Song of Ice and Fire Where the Wild Things Are ...
Adventure fiction tends to have a dark, foreboding mood with an expectant tone because readers don't usually find out if the protagonist survives until the end of the story. Some adventure genre authors incorporate humor into their stories to soften the mood, such as Mark Twain's use of ligh...
Today, one might say there are five main types of illustrations: educational "information graphics" (eg. scientific textbooks); literary (eg. children's books); fantasy games and books; media (magazines, periodicals, newspapers); and commercial (advertising posters, point of sale, product ...
Characteristics of the Gothic Genre. Most scholars refer to Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto as the first Gothic novel. Walpole's novel was published in the late 18th century; soon after, there was a surge in fiction with similar elements: Supernat
contain other elements like magic or technology that does not yet exist, or historical fiction that is rooted in either true events or the lives of real people. Readers will not find these elements in realistic fiction. In this genre, all parts of the story are believable but do not actuall...
As agenre, the short story received relatively little critical attention through the middle of the 20th century, and the most valuable studies of the form were often limited by region or era. In hisThe Lonely Voice(1963), the Irish short story writerFrank O’Connorattempted to account for th...
Further analysis revealed that perceptual realism was a better predictor of viewer satisfaction than emotional arousal. We consider the idea that these findings may be a function of the fantasy genre and call for...
invented byHorace Walpole, whoseThe Castle of Otranto(1765) may be said to have founded the horror story as alegitimateliterary form.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleyintroduced pseudoscience into thegenrein her famousnovelFrankenstein(1818), about the creation of a monster that ultimately destroys itscreator...
Bildungsromanis recognized as a story where the author focuses on the maturation process of the protagonist. Authors within this genre of writing mainly focus on the moral and/or spiritual growth that occurs during the protagonist's formative years. ...