Fiction ( page 170 ).
Questions.
1. What is a fiction in the most common modern meaning of the word? 2. How does a fiction differ from a novel? from a fable? from a myth? 3. How does a myth differ from a legend? 4. How do falsehood and fabrication differ from the words above mentioned? 5. Is fabrication or falsehood the more odious term? Which term is really the stronger? 6. What is a story? Is it good or bad, true or false? With what words of the group does it agree?
Examples.
O scenes surpassing ——, and yet true,
Scenes of accomplished bliss.
A —— strange is told of thee.
I believe the whole account from beginning to end to be a pure ——.
A thing sustained by such substantial evidence could not be a mere —— of the imagination.