fiction vs nonfiction
Definitions
noun
- a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
- a deliberately false or improbable account
Examples
The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ...
Either the recession is biting harder than I had realised or a lot of people are confused about the boundaries between fact and fiction.
This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies.
Definitions
noun
- prose writing that is not fictional
Examples
Artists who work in nonfiction, by contrast, try stick to the contours of what happened while primarily serving the themes of the story.
I still feel this way about a lot of books; I like either nonfiction or stories in blatantly fictional settings - but not the ones that are "realistic" dramas involving self-torturing individuals and their families.
Using composites characters or scenes in nonfiction is controversial.
