Fiction types
There are different types of fiction texts, the main types are:
- A straight piece of writing, not poetry.
- poetry
- drama
Fiction texts have a creative element to them and tend to use Any method an author uses to add meaning or interest to a text, such as metaphors, similes or alliteration.. Within each type of fiction, there are different A category or type of something. Fiction and non-fiction are two examples of different genres.. For example, there are different genres of prose fiction:
- science fiction (or sci-fi)
- historical fiction
- romance fiction
- A type of novel that tells about the early moral, psychological, and intellectual development of the main character. The Harry Potter books are a modern-day example.
Science fiction is a genre of prose fiction that mostly relies upon the writer鈥檚 imagination. For example, a science fiction text could be about scientific changes in a future world that the writer has made up. Science fiction writers like Aldous Huxley and Philip K Dick, created An imagined society that is negative in some way, for example an oppressive society. futures in their prose fiction.
Some prose fiction is based on real events - an example of this would be a Fiction based on real historical events, for example Hilary Mantel鈥檚 Wolf Hall. novel. The writer uses historical research to create a story rather than using their own life experiences, but they also use their imagination to make the story come alive.
Tracey Chevalier鈥檚 novel Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999) is an example of historical fiction. The novel is based around a real 17th century painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. The novel uses real people and historical events, but Tracey Chevalier also uses her imagination to decide how these characters would feel and behave.
Many modern writers experiment with genre and often write prose fiction that breaks many conventions.
Some celebrated fiction writers from the 20th century include:
- George Orwell - best-known for his dystopian novels 1984 and Animal Farm. His prose fiction could also be defined by its focus on the themes of politics and power.
- Ian McEwan - known for his prose fiction in the Fiction that has a realistic setting and 鈥榬eal life鈥 feel..
- Toni Morrison - well-known for her ranges of genres, her novel Beloved has elements of the Gothic genre and also could be seen as a historical novel.
- Margaret Attwood - likes to experiment with genre and has written both science fiction and Fiction that usually follows the solving of a crime. prose.
- Andrea Levy - writes Writing of higher quality compared to popular fiction. This type of fiction tends to focus more on the themes rather than the plot. with narratives that are often told by a range of different characters and frequently deal with the theme of migration. Her novel Small Island explores the link between place and identity.