A Genre is a type of
literature that is characterized by a specific form, content, and it has style that is
unique to it. The main genres are Fiction and Non-Fiction, everything else falls under a category, subgenre or format.
A Format is a structure of writing, it is not a genre. Examples being Poetry, Drama, Novels, Chapter Books, Short stories, Picture Books and graphic novels.
Under Fiction there are two main branches: Realism and Fantasy. Realism contains realistic modern/contemporary and Historical. However, Fantasy begins with Traditional and then branches out to Folktales, Ballads, Fables, Legends, Myths and Fairytales. The modern section of Fantasy consists of Hard Science Fiction, High Fantasy, Soft Science Fiction and Low Fantasy.
In Non-Fiction, there is an umbrellas which begins with informational, and then tiers of to biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. Then Narrartive Nonfiction and Expository Nonfiction.
There is one big difference between a genre and common categories- those are reffered to as subjects.
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