All non-fiction antonyms

noun non-fiction

• idyll — a poem or prose composition, usually describing pastoral scenes or events or any charmingly simple episode, appealing incident, or the like.
• cock and bull story — an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth: Don't ask him about his ancestry unless you want to hear a cock-and-bull story.
• fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• melodrama — a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
• folktale — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
• folktales — a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people.
• in-accuracy — something inaccurate; error.
• bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
• conte — a tale or short story, esp of adventure
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• fable — a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
• myth — a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
• fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
• novel — Roman Law. an imperial enactment subsequent and supplementary to an imperial compilation and codification of authoritative legal materials. Usually, Novels. imperial enactments subsequent to the promulgation of Justinian's Code and supplementary to it: one of the four divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
• novelette — a brief novel or long short story.
• novella — a tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio.
• nonfiction — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
• fibbery — The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
• bestseller — A bestseller is a book of which a great number of copies has been sold.
• fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
• chestnut — A chestnut or chestnut tree is a tall tree with broad leaves.
• artifact — any object made by human work; esp., a simple or primitive tool, weapon, vessel, etc.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
• disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
• allegory — An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
• falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• legend — a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical.
• clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
• artefact — An artefact is an ornament, tool, or other object that is made by a human being, especially one that is historically or culturally interesting.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.