Fictionalization  

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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."

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 1850: "The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed."



In films and literature

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

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