The phrase "a fictional situation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing scenarios that are not real or are created for storytelling, analysis, or illustrative purposes.
Example: "In a fictional situation where time travel is possible, characters often face moral dilemmas about changing the past."
Alternatives: "an imaginary scenario" or "a made-up context."
"In any film, you are looking for someone who will make a fictional situation credible based on how they look and how they respond, what reactions they make, what personality comes across," he said.
In a paper recently published in The Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, a group of professors investigated how people interpreted the W.E.A.s during an unfamiliar event, such as a fictional situation in which a dirty bomb went off.
Ultimately, for me, I think the ideas have to come from within a fictional situation, not from the outside—I think that there are ideas latent in every scene, but there are not necessarily scenes in every idea.
Yet all the time we are aware that this is a merely fictional situation, so there is no temptation to yield to a desire to save her.
"You are with total strangers in a total fictional situation in which you must seek the private, reserved place".
I'd like to say that this is a purely fictional situation.
Put the fictional child in a fictional place.
He especially favours diagrams, "semiotic squares", in which "the basic coordinates of the fictional situation" are given in a network of abstractions, drawn on the page in neat lattices.
4. Divide the class into small groups, and assign each a fictional emergency situation in their area (such as a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, a public transportation disaster, etc).
Lasance had previously been in caught up in a real house fire; he said the director of the episode "milked" the fictional situation to make it seem more dramatic than a real fire.
I would get to class and pay a dollar if I was late and nervously ruminate on whichever fictional situation I had prepared for the day and worry that, when onstage, I wouldn't be able to cry.
