fabulation
Weaving fictional tales
Fabulation is the act of inventing or relating fantastical stories, often with the implication that the teller presents fiction as fact.
In literary criticism, it describes a mode of storytelling that embraces the artificial and imaginative over strict realism, celebrating narrative invention for its own sake.
The term can carry a negative connotation when applied to someone who habitually embellishes or fabricates: His account of the evening was pure fabulation.
Account of events
- taleSpoken or written narrative
- yarnTwisted strand for crafts
- anecdoteBrief account of incident
- storyAccount of events
narrator · plot · invention · embellishment · elaboration · unreliable narrator · magical realism · metafiction
Deliberately untrue statement
- inventionNew device or method
- lieDeliberate falsehood
- falsehoodDeliberate untrue statement
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
exaggeration · distortion · untruth · tall tale · fish story · yarn · concoction · misremembering
Imaginary realm during slumber
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- whimsyPlayful, capricious quality
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
- wonderlandMagical place of marvels
surrealism · phantasmagoria · magical · escapism · fantastical · chimera · reverie · visionary
Believed but fictional recall
- memory distortionInaccurate recall of events
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
- amnesiaPathological loss of recall
dissociation · neurological · unconscious · rationalization · self-deception · cognitive · trauma
narrative
Account of events
story · narrator · plot · invention · embellishment · elaboration · unreliable narrator · magical realism · metafiction · postmodern
fabrication
Deliberately untrue statement
embellishment · exaggeration · distortion · untruth · tall tale · fish story · yarn · concoction · misremembering · false memory
dreamworld
Imaginary realm during slumber
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- whimsyPlayful, capricious quality
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
wonderland · surrealism · phantasmagoria · magical · escapism · fantastical · chimera · reverie · visionary · make-believe
false memory
Believed but fictional recall
- memory distortionInaccurate recall of events
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
- hallucinationPerception without external cause
amnesia · dissociation · neurological · unconscious · rationalization · self-deception · cognitive · trauma
- Experimental Writingexperimental fiction, experimental poetry, antinovel, fragmented narrative, fragmentation
- fictionfiction, novel, novels, novella, novellas
- experimental narrativemetafiction, nonlinear plot, fragmented narrative, unreliable narrator, stream of consciousness
fabulationreportage
Factual news writing
truth-telling · journalism · nonfiction · documentary · documentation
fabulationrealism
Accepting things as they are
naturalism · verisimilitude · social realism · documentary · slice of life