What is Fantasy?
6th Grade · ELA · 15 min
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Learning Objective
I can define the characteristics of the fantasy genre.
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A fiction genre called fantasy includes wizards, dragons, unicorns, elves, and other unreal things.
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Fantasy stories often take place in a made-up universe or a made-up version of the real world with new rules, and strange things happen because of magic.
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Modern fantasy differs from traditional fantasy because it has a real, known author, unlike myths and legends that were shared by people long ago.
