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  2. Literary realism - Wikipedia

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    A typical feature of Verismo is the usage of a language which coincides with the characters' social condition and their level of education: therefore, if the protagonists of the story are e.g., peasants, they will use a popular, lowbrow language; middle class characters will speak in a higher, more raffinate way.

  3. The Winter Room - Wikipedia

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    It is a realistic fiction story about logging and farming, narrated in the first person to two boys by their Norwegian uncle in the "winter room" of a farm in northern Minnesota, United States. Like many of his works, it evokes a harsh rural environment using vivid imagery, and has elements of a coming of age tale.

  4. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Realistic fictionstories 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 ...

  5. Magical realism - Wikipedia

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    Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements, often blurring the lines between speculation and reality. [1] Magical realism is the most commonly used of the three terms and refers to literature in particular.

  6. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    It starts out with realistic flu symptoms including its first stage being a fever, and then progresses through more fictional nonsensical stages until the infected victim recovers after the seventh (a submissive suggestible stage which Leo insists on being called the "must say yes" stage): "wild rat man" – the infected victim turning feral ...

  7. 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]

  8. List of metafictional works - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly used for humorous or parodic effect, and has appeared in a wide range of mediums, including writing, film, theatre, and video gaming.

  9. Fiction theory - Wikipedia

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    The story world model is a commonly used method of explaining fiction theory. [1] In short, this model relies on reader logic that certain things can choose to be inconsequential or simply not exist in a story opposite of reality. For example, the presence of technology.