A Genre is a definition of the story's focus and basic writing style.
General[]
A General story has elements of most genres, usually Suspense, Comedy, Action/Adventure and Romance, Drama or Angst (rarely more than one of those three).
Action/Adventure[]
Action/Adventure stories usually revolve around fighting other characters during a journey or quest. However, it can also be solely one or the other as both genres are usually given as one.
Suspense[]
A suspenseful story is a story that focuses on the events leading up to an even greater one, which usually occurs as the climax, or after the ending. i.e. Studying for a test, Training for a race, fighting towards a greater evil...
Comedy[]
A comedy is a story that focuses on humor and makes the reader laugh.
Drama[]
Drama is similar to angst. However, drama often deals with romance and conflict.
Romance[]
Romance is a story where two or more characters are in love. Usually two or three pairs will come together in love at the end, or are together and tested.
Angst[]
An angstful story is a story that often boarders on Romance where one character is in great emotional pain over a non-romantic problem such as abuse or similar.
Horror[]
Horror stories usually follow characters being terrorized by a killer or creature or some kind of problem which causes the reader anxiety, fear, and ultimately thrills.
Friendship[]
Friendship stories bring two characters together as friends or focus on their friendship.
Tragedy[]
Stories with the genre of tragedy have multiple characters (usually the main characters) die. A great example of this is some of Shakespeare's plays like Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet.
Sci-Fi[]
Sci-Fi usually deals fictional species causing danger or problems to human society, take place in the distant future, or involve space or time travel.
Historical[]
Like the title says, Historical stories deal with real historical moments, such as wars (ex. Civil War) or other big moments in time (ex. death of a political figure).
Fantasy[]
Fantasy usually deals with magic and mystical creatures of some sort.
Crossover[]
Crossovers find characters from different stories, series or films coming together.
Prequel[]
Prequels are usually set before the events of the series.
Remake/Rewrite[]
Remakes are stories that attempt to remake episodes.