WHAT IS FICTION What Is Fiction Writers use their imagination to create a kind of literature called (cid:193)(cid:71)(cid:88)(cid:77)(cid:83)(cid:82)(cid:18)(cid:3)(cid:56)(cid:76)(cid:73)(cid:93)(cid:3)(cid:77)(cid:82)(cid:90)(cid:73)(cid:82)(cid:88)(cid:3)(cid:71)(cid:76)(cid:69)(cid:86)(cid:69)(cid:71)(cid:88)(cid:73)(cid:86)(cid:87)(cid:16)(cid:3) put them in a setting and give them feelings words and adventures Fiction is written in a style called prose which is much like everyday speech The other main type of (cid:84)(cid:86)(cid:83)(cid:87)(cid:73)(cid:3)(cid:77)(cid:87)(cid:3)(cid:82)(cid:83)(cid:82)(cid:193)(cid:71)(cid:88)(cid:77)(cid:83)(cid:82)(cid:16)(cid:3)(cid:91)(cid:76)(cid:77)(cid:71)(cid:76)(cid:3) is based on facts and true stories Many people enjoy reading fiction 4
5 (cid:49)(cid:83)(cid:72)(cid:73)(cid:86)(cid:82)(cid:3)(cid:193)(cid:71)(cid:88)(cid:77)(cid:83)(cid:82)(cid:3)(cid:71)(cid:83)(cid:81)(cid:73)(cid:87)(cid:3) in two main forms the novel and the short story A novel can tell a long and complicated story It can have many parts called chapters and many characters A short novel is sometimes called a novella Short stories are shorter than novels They usually have fewer characters and only a few important scenes Literature is writing that is usually considered to be a work of art Prose is the ordinary language used in speaking or writing You can find many works of fiction at your school or neighborhood library WHAT IS FICTION
6 WHAT IS FICTION Where Did Fiction Come From Thousands of years ago people expressed ideas about the world by telling stories aloud They usually told stories as poetry to make them easier to remember Eventually people began writing them down so they could not be changed or lost Over time story forms (cid:71)(cid:76)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:75)(cid:73)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:193)(cid:71)(cid:88)(cid:77)(cid:83)(cid:82)(cid:3)(cid:91)(cid:69)(cid:87)(cid:3)(cid:91)(cid:86)(cid:77)(cid:88)(cid:88)(cid:73)(cid:82)(cid:18)(cid:3) Cultures all over the world developed their own collections of short stories and novels Today stories are still an important part of our culture just as they were thousands of years ago
7 In the Middle East and Asia storytellers told the tales of the Arabian Nights or (cid:56)(cid:76)(cid:73)(cid:3)(cid:56)(cid:76)(cid:83)(cid:89)(cid:87)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:51)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:3) Nights These short stories were collected and written down in the 800s or 900s In the 1000s the Japanese writer Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji Many consider this story of a Japanese prince to be the world’s oldest novel Don Quixote is often called the first modern novel The Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes completed it in 1615 Fiction Writers This picture shows a scene from Aladdin which is one of the stories in Arabian Nights WHERE DID FICTION COME FROM
