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(Britain, sometimes derogatory) A kind of popular novel set in a suburban or rural location and featuring domestic and emotional themes involving middle-class characters.
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the type of popular fiction sold at airports for reading in-flight or on holiday
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(opera) An opera (dramatical production) that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the opera.
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fiction containing autobiographical elements
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A blend of autobiography and fiction; faction.
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(slang) A work of fiction (especially a novel) featuring a frame story or metanarrative structure.
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A form of hyperfiction or interactive fiction intended to be the computerized equivalent of a traditional novel.
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A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
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Alternative letter-case form of Danth's Law [(Internet, humorous) An adage that states that a person who insists that they have won an Internet argument has probably very badly lost.]
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Resembling or characteristic of an equation.
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Any genre of literature used as escapism
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Resembling or characteristic of an essay.
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A work of fiction that attempts to explain the causes of a real event.
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(literature, film) A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.
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The light, entertaining writing style associated with feuilletons.
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The creation of fiction.
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A novel created from (possibly unrelated, and possibly previously published) pieces of short fiction.
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(countable) A fictional story that is briefer than typical short stories.
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(authorship) Fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre (such as mystery, romance, or horror) with an existing audience.
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Characterized by subversion of generic tropes or fusion of disparate genres.
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Softening of boundaries between literary fiction and genre fiction.
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(usually humorous) An adage that states that the first person in an argument (usually in an online comment thread or forum) to mention the Nazis or Adolf Hitler has lost.
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One who writes in the style of Gongorism.
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(literature, especially detective fiction) Written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect.
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(uncountable) A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot.
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Fiction based on real historical events, but in which the characters are not real, and the minor events may not be realistic.
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A novel whose story is set in a particular historical setting.
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The authorship of hyperfiction
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An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
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(literature, uncountable) Text adventures and their descendants.
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(slang) books written for children or young adults
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Alternative form of lad lit [(Britain) Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.]
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Alternative form of lad lit [(Britain) Male-authored popular novels about young men and their emotional and personal lives.]
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A literary collection of legends, particularly those detailing the life of a saint.
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(programming) Resembling or characteristic of the programming language Lisp.
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Alternative form of litfic [(informal) literary fiction]
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Fiction lacking speculative elements and centred on character and theme.
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(informal) literary fiction
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Fiction that has a greater than normal length
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Alternative spelling of macro-fiction [Fiction that has a greater than normal length]
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(informal) Literary fiction which appeals to, or is marketed toward, men, typically written by male authors and centering on male characters.
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The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
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(by extension) A slogan or phrase often repeated.
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Fiction that attempts to convey a sociopolitical message, as opposed to mere escapism.
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A genre made up of other genres.
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(art) A hyper-specific or niche genre.
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(obsolete) A miscellanist.
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(fiction) A subgenre of crime fiction in which characters must investigate and solve a murder.
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Fiction in very short form, especially in 55 words or fewer.
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Alternative spelling of nonfiction [Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.]
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(literature) A type of 1950s French novel that diverged from classical literary genres; antinovel.
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A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
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The art of writing novels.
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(literature) A short novel.
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Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
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Resembling or characteristic of a novelette.
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Resembling or characteristic of a novel.
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(uncountable, literature) The dominance of the novel as a literary form.
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A short novel or long short story.
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Resembling or characteristic of a novel (prose work).
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(narratology, science fiction) An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement (characteristic of science fiction), is lent plausibility by the assumption that the fictional universe is scientifically consistent.
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The oral equivalent of literature: a collection of traditional folk songs, stories, etc., that is communicated orally rather than in writing.
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(sometimes derogatory) A fictional, often religious narrative, presented as true by its author to accomplish some altruistic motive.
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(obsolete) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; so called as being presented with a wreath of laurel.
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Writing that resembles fiction but lacks key attributes of fiction; for example, an autobiographical novel
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The kind of shocking and sensational fiction found in a pulp magazine.
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Characteristic of pulp (lurid, sensational writing).
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(obsolete) A rhapsodist.
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A piece of fiction, especially a novel, describing real-life people or events.
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Combining elements of biography with fiction.
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(historical) A novel full of violence, melodrama, and usually improbable situations.
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A work of fiction that is shorter than a novella.
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A 19th-century genre of English literature that depicted the lives of the upper class and the aristocracy.
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As in a story for children; pleasant and idealized, or having a happy conclusion.
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Like a storybook, or a traditional story
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(uncountable) The genre of such stories.
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(literature) A literary work composed of a number of discrete narratives.
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Alternative form of valspeak [The sociolect spoken by stereotypical Southern Californian valley girls.]
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A macabre subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th century, pre-dating the horror and fantasy genres.
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A fictional account; a story.
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