Specialist dictionary

Fiction

Specialist vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric.

Core vocabulary

17 featured terms

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Novelettenoun

a short novel

Novellanoun

a short novel

Science fictionnoun

literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society

Short storynoun

a prose narrative shorter than a novel

Stream of consciousnessnoun

a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy

Cyberpunknoun

a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies

Characternoun

an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"

Fictional characternoun

an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"

Fictitious characternoun

an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"

Novelnoun

an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

Plotnoun

the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"

Fantasynoun

fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"

Phantasynoun

fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"

Actionnoun

the series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action"

Agonistnoun

the principal character in a work of fiction

Protagonistnoun

the principal character in a work of fiction

Romancenoun

a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life