Eat Your Words: Fiction and Devein Devouring books and crafting
meals is great–but sounding smart while you do it is even
better. That’s why we’re teaching you to eat your words. In this
weekly guide, we bring you literary devices and culinary terms
everyone should know. Fiction (noun): a story that is imagined
or invented; may be based on history or reality but is not a
true story in the sense that it actually happened. Example: Many
of the popular novels we consume regularly are works of fiction.
Usually, this means that their plots are entirely made up.
Sometimes they take place in real historical settings–such as
Nazi Germany, South Africa during Apartheid, or America during
the Civil War–but other times such stories are set in completely
unexplored or even non-existent locations. Other times, as in
the case of Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter, reality and fiction
intertwine. For example, famous personalities such as Elizabeth
Taylor and Richard Burton make cameos but, unlike the real
world, they only play