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Definition- unreal, wishful, dubious; showing inventions or whimsy; imaginative, curious
 
Synonyms: visionary, baseless, illusory
 
Antonyms: realistic; serious

"'I thought we were talking about your disgust for werewolves.'"
-New Moon by Stephenie Meyer pg 307
 
This example shows the fantasy of Stephenie Meyer. She creates this werewolf, Jacob Black, to be a werewolf instead of human. This excerpt has a fanciful tone in that it shows the fantasy world that is unreal and imagination. Meyer uses her imagination to describe a boy as she imagines it in her own mind. Throughout the book and her other books, Meyer describes the process of changing to a werewolf and how it feels and what Jscob does as a werewolf and makes it so clear, yet we obviously know it is unreal. Yet through this fanciful tone, we know that it is fiction and her creativity that brings Jacob Black to life.

AP Lang '07-'08