Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Prose works other than fiction: I've read her novels but not her nonfiction.
- n. The category of literature consisting of works of this kind.
Wiktionary
- n. Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.
WordNet 3.0
- n. prose writing that is not fictional
Examples
“Using composites characters or scenes in nonfiction is controversial.”
“The top ten bestsellers in nonfiction, also as recorded by Publishers Weekly;”
A Progressive on the Prairie » A Books of the Century reading challenge » Print
“Thus, Rose seems to be suggesting, "story" in nonfiction ought not to be an end in itself, but rather a strategy used to communicate "a larger idea.”
“Laura Cross is an author, screenwriter, ghostwriter, freelance book editor, and writing coach specializing in nonfiction books and script adaptation (book-to-film projects).”
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“CREATIVE MEMOIRS WORKSHOP, guidance on documenting memories in nonfiction, short fiction or poetry. 2-4 p.m.,”
The Washington Post: Southern Maryland community calendar, Sept. 30-Oct. 7, 2010
“My inclination to read nonfiction is starting to grow back!”
“Without which a book of nonfiction is most likely fiction.”
“Another work, which demonstrates the conviction behind London's nonfiction, is his introduction to Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman.”
“Another of the difficulties in compiling London's complete nonfiction is the curious fact that many of his articles were reprinted under different titles.”
“One great way to become more engaged in your books, especially nonfiction, is to write in them.”
The Huffington Post: Steve Leveen: Seven Ways Electronic Books Will Make Us Better Readers
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nonfiction’.
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Mirrored Vowels
Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mir...feminine, solicitor, caruncular, repackager, semiprimes, fetishises, decomposer, demonlover, recomposer, sepultures, lipotropic, colesterol and 385 more...
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Realism
Words to describe the art during the Realist movement
reality, harsh, criticizing, working-class, labor, working, organized, status, satire, dark, masses, ordinary and 45 more...
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junemoonchild's Favorite Words
Aubrey, astrology, Cancer, Taurus, dybbuk, enchantress, love, mystery, mysteriarch, spirit, melancholy, disintegration and 129 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2014 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
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Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names I
Tulip Names II: You Know My Name
A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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8th--Unit 1 Vocab (Part 1)
predictions, outcome, nonfiction, main idea, supporting detail, fiction, exposition, climax, rising action, falling action, resolution, internal conflict and 8 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nonfiction.
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