#fiction  a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
  supertype:  #literary_composition__literary_work  imaginative or creative writing
  subtype:  #novel  a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
     subtype:  #detective_novel__detectivenovel__mystery_novel__mysterynovel  novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end
     subtype:  #dime_novel__penny_dreadful__pennydreadful  a melodramatic paperback novel
     subtype:  #novelette__novella  a short novel
     subtype:  #roman_a_clef__romanaclef  a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters
     subtype:  #romance  a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
        subtype:  #Gothic_romance  a romance that deals with desolate and mysterious and grotesque events
     subtype:  #roman_fleuve__romanfleuve  a French novel in the form of a long chronicle of a family or other social group
  subtype:  #phantasy__fantasy  fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"
     subtype:  #science_fiction__sciencefiction  literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society
  subtype:  #story  a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
     subtype:  #adventure_story__adventurestory__heroic_tale  a story of an adventure
        subtype:  #thriller  a suspenseful adventure story
        subtype:  #saga  an narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
     subtype:  #mystery_story__mysterystory__mystery__whodunit  a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
        subtype:  #detective_story  a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution
        subtype:  #murder_mystery  a narrative about a murder and how the murderer is discovered
     subtype:  #love_story__romance  a story dealing with love
     subtype:  #legend__fable  a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
        subtype:  #Arthurian_legend  the legend of King Arthur and his court at Camelot
     subtype:  #short_story  a prose narrative shorter than a novel
     subtype:  #apologue__fable__parable  a short moral story (often with animal characters)
        subtype:  #Aesop's_fables  a collection of fables believed to have been written the Greek storyteller Aesop
     subtype:  #myth  a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
        instance:  #Gotterdammerung__Ragnarok__Twilight_of_the_Gods
     subtype:  #parable  (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message; "the parable of the prodigal son"
     subtype:  #plot  the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
        subtype:  #action.plot  the series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action"
        subtype:  #storyline__plot_line  the plot of a book or play or film

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