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Non Fiction Prose

Fiction includes works that present imagined stories, worlds, or characters, such as poems, novels, and plays. Nonfiction references real people, events, and information from the actual world, including newspaper articles, textbooks, and documentaries. While the lines have blurred with some hybrid works, fiction is generally categorized by use of imagination rather than claims of describing reality.

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Non Fiction Prose

Fiction includes works that present imagined stories, worlds, or characters, such as poems, novels, and plays. Nonfiction references real people, events, and information from the actual world, including newspaper articles, textbooks, and documentaries. While the lines have blurred with some hybrid works, fiction is generally categorized by use of imagination rather than claims of describing reality.

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Fiction v.

Nonfiction

Texts are commonly classified as fiction or nonfiction. The distinction addresses whether a
text discusses the world of the imagination (fiction) or the real world (nonfiction).

Fiction: poems, stories, plays, novels

Nonfiction: newspaper stories, editorials, personal accounts, journal articles, textbooks, legal
documents

Fiction is commonly divided into three areas according to the general appearance of the text:

stories and novels: prose--that is, the usual paragraph structure--forming chapters

poetry: lines of varying length, forming stanzas

plays: spoken lines and stage directions, arranged in scenes and acts

Other than for documentaries, movies are fiction because they present a "made up" story.
Movie reviews, on the other hand, are nonfiction, because they discuss something real—
namely movies.

Note that newspaper articles are nonfiction—even when fabricated. The test is not whether
the assertions are true. Nonfiction can make false assertions, and often does. The question
is whether the assertions claim to describe reality, no matter how speculative the discussion
may be. Claims of alien abduction are classified as nonfiction, while "what if" scenarios of
history are, by their very nature, fiction.

The distinction between fiction and nonfiction has been blurred in recent years. Novelists
(writers of fiction) have based stories on real life events and characters (nonfiction), and
historians (writers of nonfiction) have incorporated imagined dialogue (fiction) to suggest the
thoughts of historical figures.

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