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Realism: Fidelity to actuality in representation, focusing closely on the thing imitated and asking for something close to a one-on-one relationship between the representation and the subject. Realism centres its attention to a remarkable degree in the immediate, the here and now, the specific action, and the verifiable consequence.

Romance: An approach relatively free of the more restrictive aspects of realistic verisimilitude*, and free to express profound or transcendent or idealistic truths. Romance features extravagant characters, or remote and exotic places, or highly exciting and heroic events, or passionate love, or mysterious or supernatural experiences.

Notes on the above:
*verisimilitude: (ver-i-sim-il-i-tewd). noun. an appearance of being true or real.