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| bad guy |
(informal) the villain or enemy in a fictional story. [1/4 definitions] |
| biopic |
a biographical film or television program often containing scenes that are fictional in order to fill out the plot and add drama, humor, or suspense to make the real life subject compelling to an audience. |
| characterization |
the creation of convincing, realistic characters in fictional writing or drama. [1/3 definitions] |
| detective story |
a fictional account of how a crime, usu. a murder, is solved by an amateur or professional detective. |
| docudrama |
a dramatic reenactment of real events, often enhanced by fictional additions, esp. for television. |
| drama |
a television show or film that is serious in nature and depicts emotionally-charged situations using fictional characters. (Cf. comedy.) [1/5 definitions] |
| dramatis personae |
the characters in a play or other fictional work. [1/2 definitions] |
| good guy |
(informal) the leading, and morally decent, character of a fictional story. [1/4 definitions] |
| joke |
a short fictional story told to provoke laughter, esp. in reaction to the ending. [1/7 definitions] |
| new journalism |
(sometimes cap.) a style of reporting characterized by the reporter's subjective interpretations and the insertion of dramatized, fictional events, conversations, and the like. |
| nonfiction |
the branch of prose literature composed of works that are not fictional. |
| nonhero |
in fictional or dramatic works, a central character that lacks qualities traditionally associated with literary heroes; antihero. |
| real1 |
not fictional or imagined; having actual existence; true. [1/6 definitions] |
| Sherlock Holmes |
a fictional detective hero in many late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century short stories and novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is described as having extraordinary powers of observation and deduction. [1/2 definitions] |
| superhero |
a fictional character found in cartoons, comic strips, or movies that possesses special powers beyond those of human beings and uses these powers for good. |
| tale |
an account of the details of a real or fictional occurrence; story. [1/3 definitions] |
| villain |
in a fictional work, such a personage, or any agency, that causes trouble for, or opposes, the hero or heroine. [1/4 definitions] |
| whodunit |
(informal) a fictional crime story, in which the object is usu. to discover who has done or committed the crime. |
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