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Exploring the World of Fiction

This quiz explores various aspects of fiction, including its history, forms, styles, and definitions. Test your knowledge on the different types of fiction and their characteristics.

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1 The history of fiction coincides with much of the history of literature, with each ________ of fiction having its own origins and development.

2 By form: ________, comics, fables, fairy tales, film, folklore, novels, plays, poetry, serials, short stories, situation comedies, and video games.

3 In fiction, style refers to language conventions and ________ used to construct a story.

4 ________: a work of at least 17,500 words but under 50,000 words (60–170 pages)

5 Adult, including, but not limited to ________ and erotica

6 Fiction (________: fictum, "created") is a branch of literature which deals, in part or in whole, with temporally contrafactual events (events that are not true at the time of writing).

7 A character is any ________, persona, identity, or entity that exists in a work of art.

8 ________: a work of 50,000 words or more (more than 170 pages), also see Length of a novel

9 In contrast to this is non-fiction, which deals exclusively in factual events (e.g.: ________, histories).

10 ________: a work of at least 2,000 words but under 7,500 words (5–25 pages)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the parents of Chicana fiction writer and Cornell University English professor Helena Maria Viramontes met while working in the fields, and that the impact of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers later influenced her fiction.
  • there are many multi-headed animals in mythology and fiction, but there have also been numerous real animals that had two heads.
  • there have been many castaways both in fiction and on real desert islands.
  • the first known classical fiction in Korean literature called Kumo shinhwa (Kumo's tales) by Kim Shi-sup was written in Chinese characters.
  • the gasoline pill is one of several fictitious or fraudulent inventions that claim to turn water into gasoline.
  • The Enchanter is the last work of fiction written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian but was first published in English after his death.
  • the 1919 novel Lad: A Dog is a fictionalized account of the life of author Albert Payson Terhune's real life rough collie Lad.
  • the drama film Obama Anak Menteng, a fictionalized recreation of Barack Obama's boyhood in Indonesia, was originally intended to première during his planned state visit.
  • Quang Nhuong Huynh was the first Vietnamese to write fiction and non-fiction in English.
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