In its broadest sense, literature refers to the written word, but it is usually divided into genres such as poetry, novels, dramas, editorials, essays, articles or visual texts. Thus, any text may be used for critical reading. The reason for the various genres (types of literature) is that each has its own purpose (TL501 2020: 9) 3 2.1 The above extract from TL501 offers examples of different kinds of literature. Identify which of the given examples are from fiction genres and which are from non-fiction genres. Which of these genres would be more suitable to use at the Foundation Phase First Additional Language level