{"id":2167,"date":"2021-08-19T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2167"},"modified":"2021-11-02T21:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T21:58:55","slug":"introduction-to-reading-literature-fiction","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/chapter\/introduction-to-reading-literature-fiction\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Reading Literature: Fiction","rendered":"Introduction to Reading Literature: Fiction"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3744\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5599\/2021\/08\/02215659\/fiction-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A man at the library browsing a shelf. There is a sign on the shelf that says Fiction.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Literature takes on many forms, and fiction introduces prose narrative, including both short stories and the novel.\u00a0 You might have heard of or even read <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> by F. Scott Fitzgerald, <em>O Pioneers!<\/em> by Willa Cather, <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> by Harper Lee, or <em>Things Fall Apart<\/em> by Chinua Achebe -- these are all examples of novels that fall under the category of literary fiction.\u00a0 Additionally, short stories such as Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/americanenglish.state.gov\/files\/ae\/resource_files\/the_tell-tale_heart_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tell-Tale Heart<\/a>,\u201d \"Tl\u00f6n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius\" by Jorge Luis Borges, or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2008\/dec\/28\/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-short-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Private Experience<\/a>\u201d are all examples of fiction.\r\n\r\nWhat are the characteristics of fiction?\u00a0 How does one define it as literature?\u00a0 What can readers do to analyze these works?\u00a0 This section answers these questions and more.","rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3744\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5599\/2021\/08\/02215659\/fiction-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A man at the library browsing a shelf. There is a sign on the shelf that says Fiction.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Literature takes on many forms, and fiction introduces prose narrative, including both short stories and the novel.\u00a0 You might have heard of or even read <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> by F. Scott Fitzgerald, <em>O Pioneers!<\/em> by Willa Cather, <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> by Harper Lee, or <em>Things Fall Apart<\/em> by Chinua Achebe &#8212; these are all examples of novels that fall under the category of literary fiction.\u00a0 Additionally, short stories such as Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/americanenglish.state.gov\/files\/ae\/resource_files\/the_tell-tale_heart_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tell-Tale Heart<\/a>,\u201d &#8220;Tl\u00f6n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius&#8221; by Jorge Luis Borges, or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie&#8217;s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2008\/dec\/28\/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-short-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Private Experience<\/a>\u201d are all examples of fiction.<\/p>\n<p>What are the characteristics of fiction?\u00a0 How does one define it as literature?\u00a0 What can readers do to analyze these works?\u00a0 This section answers these questions and more.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2167\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Library . <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: brett lohmeyer. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/6eZTcS\">https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/6eZTcS<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">Lumen Learning authored content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Reading Literature: Fiction. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":161083,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"lumen\",\"description\":\"Reading Literature: Fiction\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Library \",\"author\":\"brett lohmeyer\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/6eZTcS\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"e9791071-cb00-4636-ba8c-08053df5c6a6","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2167","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":91,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161083"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3746,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2167\/revisions\/3746"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/91"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2167\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-englishcomp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}