Fictionalization  

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Fictionalization or dramatization is to treat as or make into fiction. A clue for noticing a fictionalization is the phrase "based on a true story."

To fictionalize is to retell something real as if it were fiction, especially by fabricating falsehoods or to convert (adaptation) something into a novel or other dramatic work.

Poe said in 1840: "The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed."

An early appeal to truth in fiction is True History, a travel tale by Lucian of Samosata, the earliest known fiction about travelling to the Moon, written in the second century CE.

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