Fiction

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 248. Chapters: Grammar, Literary technique, Short story, Genre, Fairy tale, Epic poetry, Character, Children's literature, Metaphor, First-person narrative, Suspension of disbelief, Epiphany, Anachronism, Stock character, Tragicomedy, Screenplay, MacGuffin, Plot hole, Formula fiction, Gene Wolfe, Parable, Narrator, Story within a story, Plot device, Monologue, Dialogue, Fantasy world, Cliffhanger, Fictional universe, Parallel universe, Setting tone, Back-story, Novel, List of cliffhanger endings, Fictional crossover, Irony, Self-fulfilling prophecy, Narrative mode, Predestination paradox, Worldbuilding, Shared universe, Floating timeline, Alternative universe, Twist ending, Arthropods in Film, Story arc, Maternal mortality in fiction, Flash fiction, Frame story, List of Mighty Avengers story arcs, Quest, Genre fiction, Deathtrap, Dream world, Second-person narrative, Pirate Freedom, Dramatic structure, The Wizard Knight, Writing style, Exposition, Scene, Lists of books, Happy ending, Severian, Prologue, Purple prose, The Call of the Wild, Paranoid fiction, Children's literature criticism, Foreshadowing, Captivity narrative, Fiction writing, Anagnorisis, Plot generator, Origin story, Framing device, Characterization, Foreign Words, Fictional fictional character, Outline of fiction, Subtext, Literary genre, Verisimilitude, Show, don't tell, Climax, Narrative structure, Length of a novel, Fictional location, Authoritarian literature, Meditation in popular culture, Scruples, Pious fiction, Blog fiction, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Narrative hook, Three-volume novel, Eavesdropping, Problem novel, Theme, Paranormal fiction, Imagery, Film à clef, Female epic, Epilogue, Petrifaction in mythology and fiction, Third-person omniscient narrative, Plot twist, Character sketch, Adventures With Rebbe Mendel, Side story, Short prose, Writer's voice, Main Street, Subplot, Detective dénouement, Narrative thread, Balanced sentence, Escapist fiction, Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, Action!, Saga novel, The Secret Book Club, Third-person limited narrative, Fiction-absolute, Vignette, Storyline, Antinovel, Bible fiction, A-Plot. Excerpt: A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century. Further definition of the genre is historically difficult. The construction of the narrative, the plot, the way reality is created in the works of fiction, the fascination of the character study, and the use of language are usually discussed to show a novel's artistic merits. Most of these requirements were introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries in order to give fiction a justification outside the field of factual history. The individualism of the presentation makes the personal memoir and the autobiography the two closest relatives among the genres of modern histories. The fictional narrative, the novel's distinct "literary" prose, specific media requirements (the use of paper and print), a characteristic subject matter that creates both intimacy and a typical epic depth can be seen as features that developed with the Western (and modern) market of fiction. The separation of a field of histories from a field of literary fiction fueled the evolution of these features in the last 400 years. Fictionality and the presentation in a narrative are the two fe...