fictional works
Invented tales, written
Fictional works are creative compositions—novels, short stories, films, plays—that depict invented characters and events rather than real ones.
The term appears in legal and academic contexts where precision matters: The estate controls all fictional works based on the character.
In casual speech, people usually just say fiction or stories.
- antagonistOne who opposes another
- bookBound written work
- dystopianDepicting oppressive imagined societies
- alternate universeHypothetical divergent reality
- dramaTheatrical art or turmoil
fantasy · fairy tale · comedy · allegory · escapism · happy ending · world-building · cultural critique · parable · graphic novel · spell · satire · hero · novel · plot twist · plot armor · unreliable narrator · anthologies
- fictionnovel, novels, novella, novellas, short story
- Welsh Literaturecerdd dant, court poetry, triads, historical tales, heroic tales
fictional worksnonfiction
Literature about real events
documentary · documentaries · biographies · biography · historical records
fictional worksscientific literature
Formal research documentation
academic papers · research publications · empirical studies · technical manuals · encyclopedias
fictional worksdocumentary evidence
Written proof of facts
primary sources · records · data · transcripts · archives