Fiction (English spelling)

Japanese: フィクション（英語表記）fiction

Fiction. The original meaning of the English word is "to create." Generally, it means to make something that is not true appear as if it were true, but as a literary term, fiction is a general term for stories that depict imaginary events imaginatively, especially novels written in prose, and is traditionally distinguished from poetry and drama, which also contain many imaginative elements. In contrast, stories of real events that are not fiction, such as history, biography, and reportage, are called non-fiction.

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Japanese:

虚構。英語の原義は「形づくる」こと。一般に事実でないものを事実らしくつくり上げることを意味するが，文学用語としてのフィクションは，架空の出来事を想像的に描いた物語，特に散文で書かれた小説の類を総称する語で，同様に想像的要素の多い詩や劇とは区別するならわしである。また，虚構ではない実際の出来事の物語，すなわち歴史，伝記，ルポルタージュなどは，ノンフィクションと呼ばれて対照的に区別される。

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