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Originally Posted by tompe
Then the Wiki page for fiction is mistaken. So since you know what fiction means you can correct the wiki page.
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Very likely it is in need of correction if it does say what you indicate. Of course Wikipedia isn't professionally edited like Britannica is for example, but is put together by anyone and everyone who can access the web. Fiction as we know it now did evolve in part from poetry. The stories told by Homer (The Illiad &The Odyssey) were written in a poetic format and meant to be sung in the original Greek for example, but Prose and Poetry in modern times have gone down two separate paths. Poetry (IMO) is more about abstract ideas like beauty, bravery, love, hate, etc. and Prose is more about how characters interact together around a common theme.