Non-fiction genres

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thumb|200px|Title page of Henry David Thoreau|Henry Thoreau's memoir, [[Walden (1854)]]

thumb|Icelandic grimoire, "Galdrabók" (), belonging to [[Swedish History Museum (signum: ATA Ämb 2 F16:26)]]

thumb|George W. Bush delivers the eulogy at [[Ronald Reagan's state funeral, June 2004.]]

Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event".

book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists

genre of literary prose

non-fiction genre

thumb|The Kievan Cave Patericon (Russia, 1758). Patericon or paterikon (), a short form for πατερικόν βιβλίον ("father's book", usually Lives of the Fathers in English), and sometimes also known as gerontikon (), is a genre of Byzantine literature of religious character, which were collections of sayings of saints, martyrs and hierarchs, and tales about them. These texts also have their roots in early monasticism.

book that is written with the intention to instruct its readers on solving personal problems

book collecting emblems (allegorical illustrations) with accompanying explanatory text

In French culture, the word mémoire, as in un mémoire ("a master's dissertation") or des mémoires ("memoirs" or "a memoir"), reflects the writer's own experiences and memories.

genre of writing

literary genre

The consolatio or consolatory oration is a type of ceremonial oratory, typically used rhetorically to comfort mourners at funerals. It was one of the most popular classical rhetoric topics, and received new impetus under Renaissance humanism.

genre of historiography

clipped language used in telegrams