nonfictional
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- adjective
- /ˌnɒnˈfɪkʃənl/
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no ficción
- The popularity of the genre depended on a public taste primed by nonfictional (if sensational) accounts of contemporary criminals.
- nonfictional texts
- nonfictional narratives
- nonfictional reference
Examples
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Her essay presented a nonfictional overview of climate change, detailing scientific research and real-world impacts.
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In this, fictional texts differ fundamentally from nonfictional texts.
Academic text (2004) -
The fictional world in La peste represents something hidden, something possible to reveal only in relation to the elements of the nonfictional world.
Academic text (2006) -
Such observations register nonfictional reference as inherently problematic, but do not explain why the expectation of accuracy must be observed.
Academic text (2016) -
Phelan cites works like James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, where an author claims or allows readers to assume that the text is nonfictional when it actually contains considerably invented material.
Academic text (2016) -
In particular, narrativity is seen as having spatio-temporal and causative elements common to stories and to such nonfictional accounts as biographies, autobiographies, and traditional histories.
Academic text (1995) -
I would argue that the "ethics of referentiality" holds as well for nonfictional narratives about well-known subjects as it does for nonfictional narratives about people or events unknown prior to publication.
Academic text (2016) -
The documentary provided a nonfictional account of the events leading up to the historical disaster.
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Many readers prefer nonfictional books because they enjoy learning about real-life stories and facts.
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Etymology
Nonfictional starts with non- meaning 'not' and ends with fiction, a word for a story that is 'made up', so nonfictional describes books, films, or accounts that are 'not invented' and are based on real facts or events.