fiction
Other forms: fictions
A fiction is a deliberately fabricated account of something. It can also be a literary work based on imagination rather than on fact, like a novel or short story.
The Latin word fictus means “to form,” which seems like a good source for the English word fiction, since fiction is formed in the imagination. Like its literary cousins fable, legend, and myth, however, fiction has a slightly darker additional meaning: a deliberate lie or untruth. When we talk about "the line between fact and fiction," we're talking about the difference between truth and lies.
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a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on facttypes:dystopiaa work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terrornovelan extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a storystorya piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related eventsutopiaa work of fiction describing a utopiahorrora genre of fiction that evokes suspense and feelings of feardetective novel, mystery novelnovel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the endscience fictionliterary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on societyroman a clefa novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional charactersromancea novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday liferoman fleuvea French novel in the form of a long chronicle of a family or other social groupmystery, mystery story, whodunita story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movieshort storya prose narrative shorter than a novelmytha traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a peopleparable(New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious messageplotthe story that is told as in a novel, play, movie, etc.bildungsromana novel that focuses on the intellectual, moral, and psychological growth of the main charactertype of:
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a deliberately false or improbable account
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