Fiction and Work

Fiction

Fiction noun - Something that is the product of the imagination.

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Work and fiction are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work" instead a noun "Fiction".

Nearby Words: fictitious, fictional, fictionally

Work noun - A literary, musical, or artistic production.

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Fiction and work are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fiction" instead a noun "Work".

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

good	good fiction	good work
best	best fiction	best work
short	short fiction	short work
complete	complete fiction	complete work
Other adjectives: original, popular, actual, entire, real, hard, great, serious, little, bad, famous, new, early, later, written, older, recent, earlier, modern.

In particular, the last section epilogue of the story is one of the most powerful things I have even read, both in published work and fiction.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Harry Potter General
In other words, this trope is in play when a quaint element of Real Life appears in a work of fiction and is mistaken for part of the fiction.

Source: Aluminum Christmas Trees
Large (read: massive) doses of paralytics and paralytic gasses can actually work similarly to the way fiction would like tranquilizers to work.

Source: Analysis / Instant Sedation

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