fictionalisation
Definition
Noun: 1. The act of converting facts or reality into a fictional narrative: The process of writing about real events or people in the form of a story, often by adding imagined details, dialogue, or scenarios. 2. A literary work that results from this process: A specific book, film, or other narrative that is based on fact but presented as fiction.
Usage
- As a concept or process (uncountable noun): is common in historical dramas.
- As a specific work (countable noun): The film is a of the true events.
Examples
- As a process: The of her childhood memories allowed the author to explore deeper emotional truths.
- As a specific work: His latest novel is a of the life of a 19th-century inventor.
Advanced Usage
- "A degree of fictionalisation": Used to indicate that some, but not all, elements of a work are invented.
Variants and Related Words
- Fictionalization (noun): The standard American English spelling. (e.g., )
- Fictionalise (verb, UK spelling): To convert into fiction. (e.g., )
- Fictionalize (verb, US spelling): The American English spelling of the verb.
Synonyms
- Fabrication (noun): The act of inventing or concocting something, often with a negative connotation of deception.
- Novelization (noun): Specifically, the adaptation of a true story or another work (like a film) into a novel.
- Dramatization (noun): Adapting events into a dramatic form, which may or may not be strictly factual.
Related Phrases
- Based on a true story: A common phrase used to indicate a work involves . It signals that the core events are real, but details have been adapted for dramatic purposes.
- Literary license / Artistic license: The freedom to deviate from facts or conventions, which is the foundation of the process.
Noun
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writing in a fictional form
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a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction
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