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Bimal Patel
History Paper II
T.A: Adrianne

Fiction vs. Fact

Traditionally, writing styles are mainly divided into three categories, Narrative, Expository and Persuasive. Historical writing is considered of type expository where as historical fiction falls under narrative style of writing. The primary difference between thses two styles of writing is that, narrative writing focuses on describing a fictional experience while expository writing focuses on conveying an information or tries to explain the facts in lucid language. Historical fiction presents more realistic view of the past than textual history does because unlike textual history, fiction allows the readers to be a spectator and watch the whole drama unfolding in front of their eyes. Some of the information in the novel about the characters can be assumed from the sources that inspire a fictional writer like personal understanding of a character or other evidences like letters and documents. Nonetheless the kind......

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Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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