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-'''Fictionalization''' is to treat as or make into '''fiction'''. A clue for noticing a fictionalization is the phrase "'''based on a true story'''."+'''Fictionalization''' is to treat as or make into '''fiction'''. A clue for noticing a fictionalization is the phrase "'''based on a true story'''." In reality all fiction is ultimately based on true stories since as Poe said in 1850: "The mind of man can [[imagine]] nothing which has not really existed."
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==Verb== ==Verb==
* To [[retell]] something [[real]] as if it were [[fiction]], especially by [[fabricate|fabricating]] [[falsehood]]s * To [[retell]] something [[real]] as if it were [[fiction]], especially by [[fabricate|fabricating]] [[falsehood]]s

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Fictionalization is to treat as or make into fiction. A clue for noticing a fictionalization is the phrase "based on a true story." In reality all fiction is ultimately based on true stories since as Poe said in 1850: "The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed."

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In film and literature fictionalized usually means: based on a true story. Related terms are dramatization.

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