Fiction vs. Drama

Fictionnoun

Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

Fictionnoun

(uncountable) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).

Fictionnoun

(legal) A legal fiction.

Fictionnoun

The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

Fictionnoun

That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; - opposed to fact, or reality.

Fictionnoun

Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.

Fictionnoun

An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth.

Fictionnoun

Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.

Fictionnoun

a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

Fictionnoun

a deliberately false or improbable account

Fictionnoun

literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people.

Fictionnoun

something that is invented or untrue

Fictionnoun

a belief or statement which is false, but is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so

Fiction

Fiction is any creative work (chiefly, any narrative work) consisting of people, events, or places that are imaginary—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact. In its most narrow usage, fiction refers to written narratives in prose and often specifically novels, though also novellas and short stories.

Dramanoun

A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue

Dramanoun

Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)

Dramanoun

Theatrical plays in general

Dramanoun

A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play

Dramanoun

(slang) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.

Dramanoun

A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.

Dramanoun

A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.

Dramanoun

Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.

Dramanoun

a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage;

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an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

Dramanoun

the literary genre of works intended for the theater

Dramanoun

the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

Dramanoun

a play for theatre, radio, or television

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plays as a genre or style of literature

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the activity of acting

Dramanoun

an exciting, emotional, or unexpected event or circumstance

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c.