I am confused.

[Attractive girl]

I am new a student in English Literature. well I am interested as well with it

I prefer Fiction to drama. now I have opportunity to keeping touch with u

because you are master in it . to help each other to get massive benefit.

I am confused in similarity between two terms Fiction and Drama.

is there similarity between the two ?

I know both tell a story are there more details lead me find out more?

[The Comedian]

I'll try to lend a hand, or a word really. Actually several words. . . . anyway,

Fiction is a general term for just about any sort of story that someone just made up. Although, sometimes this term is more specifically applied to novels. Hemingway, Virgina Woolf, and Willa Cather write fiction primarily.

Drama is a word used to describe plays (work that is supposed to be performed for an audience by actors and such). Shakespeare wrote plays. So did Eugene O'Neil.

[Attractive girl]

Thanks alot but u explain in genral and the difference i would like to know about similarity I knew about difference
by the way thanks for comment

[tay190]

I'll take a stab at it;
I would say that a drama is more than just a story associated with plays. It's a story that involves a lot of emotion, it could be negative or poisitive, and portrays what a character is going through emotionally.
And a drama has the opportunity to be a work of fiction because let's face it, most drama's you read these days are ficticious. So the similarities between the two could probably be described as a link between what could happen, with real emotions and with fake characters.
I'm not sure if that makes any sense at all, but good luck all the same :)

Emma

[PeterL]

The difference is that drama is written with the intention that it will be performed. Fiction is a very broad term that simply means that something is a work of imagination. All drama is fiction, but drama is only a small part of fiction.

[Attractive girl]

Thanks to all

but i still misunderstand

[miss-shosho]

hello

you are student in English Literature like me
this department need a hard work

also,
I am sorry
your question same my question
best wishes

[prendrelemick]

Here Goes.

Fiction is a made up story, thats the easy one.

Drama is more tricky. It does refer to plays in its pure academic sense, but the word is now used in a much broader way.

Drama is no longer even confined to fiction in its everyday use. Its root meaning is action. Think of a story that twists and turns, that has highs and lows, that grips you, that compels you to see it to the end. Think of a football match, the last minute goal the near misses the "if only". Its about excitement and the unfolding story.

That is Drama. The response of the audience is what defines it as much as anything.

[0isin]

Another thing is, Drama is quite often coupled with Romance.

Just like in Romeo and Juliet, they have a great time, but things start to go downhill...until finally something disastrous happens.

[mal4mac]

Drama is always fiction. Even works, like Shakespeare's history plays, that are 'close' to fact, are not fact. Drama always involves particular words and scenes that could never have been true in fact. Docu-dramas try very hard to stay close to the facts, but are a recent invention and are not really taken all that seriously as 'drama' in literary circles.

[prendrelemick]

Drama is always fiction. Even works, like Shakespeare's history plays, that are 'close' to fact, are not fact. Drama always involves particular words and scenes that could never have been true in fact. Docu-dramas try very hard to stay close to the facts, but are a recent invention and are not really taken all that seriously as 'drama' in literary circles.

Only in its pure form. In its modern usage it need not be fiction. How often do news shows follow an "unfolding drama"? Or have "dramatic news from **** "? There is also drama in a sporting contests, in fact that is the main attraction.

Perhaps in these contexts the term is used as a metaphor saying that life is but a play.

[mal4mac]

English can be so confusing :) Princeton wordnet is often good at helping to sort out such problems. Type "define: drama" In Google. You get:

1) play: a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway"
2) an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
3) the literary genre of works intended for the theater
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

I was using 'drama' in senses 1) and 3). Mick's newscaster uses it in sense 2). They are totally different senses of the word! The unfolding drama (indeed tragedy) in Haiti is obviously not a broadway play. The "news" sense of drama is using the "broadway play" sense of drama as a metaphor because plays tends to be highly charged and dramatic.

Does arabic use the same metaphor? You could imagine an alternative English where film replaced drama as the metaphor. So you might have the newscaster saying there was a "'very filmic pile up on the motorway". I ask because I get the impression that drama isn't primary in arabic culture, with "tales" and "religious texts" being far more prominent.