What is realistic fiction

These stories resemble real life, and fictional characters within these stories react similarly to real people. Stories that are classified as realistic fiction have plots that highlight social or personal events or issues that mirror contemporary life, such as falling in love, marriage, finding a job, divorce, alcoholism, etc.

It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. Language was expected to be literary in quality, with a certain formality and high level of diction. Realism altered literary style by bringing everyday events into the narrative and allowing for realistic characters and plot outcomes, at the expense of dramatic effect.

Realist literature also stressed the use of regional dialect and realistic dialogue. Together, these changes formed a basis for the realistic fiction that exists today. It contains believable characters who act within our own world, often in specific and identifiable locations.

The characters speak using contemporary dialogue, including slang and sentence fragments as most of their readers would. Realistic stories and novels address themes relevant to their readers; these may include stories of self-discovery, coming of age, triumphing against the odds, or fighting for justice regarding a hot-button social issue. The tone of these novels ranges widely. Readers can select humorous, gritty, or romantic stories, for example, based on their own preferences.

Many options make realistic fiction an accessible genre of literature and a popular option for readers of all ages and backgrounds. More most read this week Realistic Fiction Books.

More realistic fiction books Related Genres. Fiction Slice Of Life. Read ». School Life. Something else. Show poll. Notable Realistic Fiction Adventure and Survival. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

Alabama Moon by Watt Key After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life.

They don't like each other at all, but to survive they must build a relationship. The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean Fourteen-year-old Symone's vacation to Antarctica turns into a dangerous adventure when her uncle becomes obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that may lead to the center the Earth. Danforth In the early s, when gay teenager Cameron Post rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and her family decides she needs to change her ways, she is sent to a gay conversion therapy center.

It by Sarah Weeks After spending her life with her mentally disabled mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins From through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.

The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.