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fiction: see novel novel, in modern literary usage, a sustained work of prose fiction a volume or more in length. It is distinguished from the short story and the fictional sketch, which are necessarily brief.
..... Click the link for more information. ; short story short story, brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's
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fiction
1. literary works invented by the imagination, such as novels or short stories
2. Law something assumed to be true for the sake of convenience, though probably false


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Further, the ending heightens the fictionality of the story because the characters complain to Hunter when he states, in his own font (not the narrative font) 'THE END'.
The influence of postmodern picturebooks on three boys' narrative ... by Pantaleo, Sylvia / Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
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Freidrichs's documentary may be viewed in the same postmodern category as Riggs's oeuvre in that his project seeks to pursue a similar fictionality and direct presentation of art, putting forth these devices as alternative gateways to truth.
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