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'''Fiction''' is an invented or feigned [[narrative]] (an imaginative form of narrative).<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2007-11-12|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/FICTION|format=HTML|language=English|work=Dictionary.com|title=fiction}}</ref> Fiction is one of the two most general categories in the hierarchy in which [[book]]s are classified, the other being [[non-fiction]] &#8212; a composition that its authors believe to be truthful.
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'''Fiction''' is an invented or feigned [[narrative]] (an imaginative form of narrative).<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2007-11-12|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/FICTION|language=English|work=Dictionary.com|title=fiction}}</ref> Fiction is one of the two most general categories in the hierarchy in which [[book]]s are classified, the other being [[non-fiction]] &#8212; a composition that its authors believe to be truthful.
  
 
Fiction differs from [[lie|lying]] because the listener knows the story isn't true.
 
Fiction differs from [[lie|lying]] because the listener knows the story isn't true.
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Latest revision as of 01:28, July 12, 2016

Fiction is an invented or feigned narrative (an imaginative form of narrative).[1] Fiction is one of the two most general categories in the hierarchy in which books are classified, the other being non-fiction — a composition that its authors believe to be truthful.

Fiction differs from lying because the listener knows the story isn't true.

References

  1. fiction (English). Dictionary.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-12.