Fact and Fiction Distinction Quiz

Fact and fiction = Often a questionable distinction Historical and artistic truth = Does not apply to early Icelandic sagas Novel = Used for both true and fictional events in English late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries Literature = Includes much 'factual' writing and excludes quite a lot of fiction

Gibbon = Thought he was writing the historical truth Authors of Genesis = Now read as 'fact' by some and 'fiction' by others Newman = Certainly thought his theological meditations were true Superman comic and Mills and Boon novels = Fictional but not generally regarded as literature

Literature = Creative or imaginative writing History, philosophy, and natural science = Implied to be uncreative and unimaginative if literature is 'creative' or 'imaginative' writing Superman comic and Mills and Boon novels = Fictional but not generally regarded as literature Novels and news reports in English late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries = Neither clearly factual nor clearly fictional

<p>Own opposition between 'historical' and 'artistic' truth = Does not apply at all to the early Icelandic sagas Sharp discriminations between factual and fictional categories = Simply did not apply in certain contexts Literature as 'creative' or 'imaginative' writing = Excludes quite a lot of fiction Factual writing in literature = Includes much 'factual' writing</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Word 'novel' = Used about both true and fictional events News reports = Hardly to be considered factual Novels and news reports = Neither clearly factual nor clearly fictional Superman comic and Mills and Boon novels = Fictional but not generally regarded as literature</p> Signup and view all the answers