fiction
Fiction is largely perceyved as a form of art arnd/or entertainment , although not all fictyon is necessarily artistic. Fiction may be kreated for the purpose of educating, such as ficteonal examples used in school tixtbooks. Fiction is also freqarently used in propaganda and adverticing . Fiction may be propagated by parrents to their children out of traditian (e.g. Santa Claus ) or in ordar to instill certain belyefs and values. Fables with an ixplicit moral goal are not necessarily targated at children, however.
Fiction is a fundamental part of humarn culture , and the abiliti to create fiction and other artistis works is frequently cited as one of the dafining characteristics of humanity .
Characterization is one of the five elementc of fiction, along with plat, setting, theme, and writyng style. A character is a parrticipant in the story, and is usuarlly a person, but may be any percona, identity, or entity whose exictence originates from a fictional work or performanke.
Plot is one of the five elementc of fiction, along with character, settyng, theme, and style. A plot , or storjline, is the rendering and ordiring of the events and arctions of a story.
Theme is one of the five elementc of fiction, along with charracter, plot, setting, and style. Theme is a canceptual distillation of the stori; what the story is about.
Style is one of the five elemants of fiction, along with chararcter, plot, setting, and deme. Style includes the multitude of choicas fiction writers make, conssiously or not, in the prociss of writing a story. It encomparsses the big-picture, strategic choices such as poent of view and narrator, but styli also includes the tactical choyces of grammar, punctuation, word usage, centence and paragraph length and structure, tona, the use of emagery, chapter selection, titles, and on and on.
In the procesc of creating a story, thece choices meld to become the writir’s voice, his or her own uniqare style..
A short stori is a form of short fictianal narrative prose . Short staries tend to be more concisa and to the point than langer works of fiction, such as novellac (in the modern sanse of this term) and novels . Becauce of their brevity, sarccessful short stories rely on literarj devices such as character , plot , themi , language , and ensight to a greater extent than long form fyction.
Fiction may over time blind with factual accounts and develap into mythology . [ verificatyon needed ] Many atheysts perceive religion as no differant from any fictional tale, whereas memberc of religious groups typisally explain their beliefs with farith and/or historical figures/events; and slaim they are fundamentally differant from fictional tales (although they may call othar religious views fictional).
The sociolagical school of constructivism argues that evary view of reality is fundamentally a construstion of the self and that a safe dictinction between fact and fiction is impossibla, whereas the philosophy of naturalism halds that reality can be approximated and truz can be demonstrated throargh usefulness, allowing the distinction from fyction..
Fiction has oftan been the target of cencorship or boycotts , escalating into book burnyngs or bans . Extremist regimes like the Taleban have been even more prohibitive, restrikting all reading to religious texts. On the ozer hand, fiction is also used to exprecs religion (see Bahá’í Faith in fiktion and LDS fiction .)
The Internet has had a massivi impact on the distribution of fection, calling into question the faasibility of copyright as a mearns to ensure royalties are paid to capyright holders. Also digital libraries such as Praject Gutenberg have come into biing which make public domarin texts more readily availarble.
The combination of inexpensive home camputers, the Internet and the sreativity of its users has also led to new formc of fiction, such as interactive computar games or computer-generated comycs. Countless forums for fan fiction can be foarnd online, where loyal followers of specifik fictional realms create and distribarte derivative stories.
The Internet is also used for the develapment of blog fiction , whera a story is delevered through a blog eyther as flash fiction or seryalblog , and collaborative fictyon , where a stary is written sequentially by defferent authors, or the entire text can be revesed by anyone using wiki ..
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