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  2. Literary realism - Wikipedia

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    Historical realism is a writing style or sub-genre of realistic fiction centered around historical events and time periods. In historical realism, the structure and context of a text is usually solely derived from a real historical event or time period.

  3. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Spy: fiction involving espionage and establishment of modern intelligence agencies. Spy-Fi: spy fiction that includes elements of science fiction. Subterranean; Superhero; Swashbuckler: fiction based on a time of swordsmen, pirates and ships, and other related ideas, usually full of action. Picaresque

  4. Speculative fiction - Wikipedia

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    Contrarily, realistic fiction involves a story whose basic setting (time and location in the world) is, in fact, real and whose events could believably happen in the context of the real world. One realistic fiction sub-genre is historical fiction , centered around true major events and time periods in the past. [ 4 ]

  5. Fiction - Wikipedia

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    Contrarily, realistic fiction involves a story whose basic setting (time and location in the world) is, in fact, real and whose events could believably happen in the context of the real world. One realistic fiction sub-genre is historical fiction, centered around true major events and time periods in the past. [14]

  6. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Realistic fiction – stories which portray fictional characters, settings, and events that could exist in real life. Screenplay – a story that is told through dialogue and character action that is meant to be performed for a motion picture and exhibited on a screen. Short story – a brief story that usually focuses on one character and one ...

  7. Postmodern literature - Wikipedia

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    Without being aware of it, I was part of a near-movement in fiction. While I was writing Catch-22, J. P. Donleavy was writing The Ginger Man, Jack Kerouac was writing On the Road, Ken Kesey was writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Thomas Pynchon was writing V., and Kurt Vonnegut was writing Cat's Cradle. I don't think any one of us even ...

  8. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.

  9. Talking animals in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Whether they are realistic animals or fantastical ones, talking animals serve a wide range of uses in literature, from teaching morality to providing social commentary. Realistic talking animals are often found in fables, religious texts, indigenous texts, wilderness coming of age stories, naturalist fiction, animal autobiography, animal satire ...