Fiction is commonly divided into three areas according to the general appearance of the text:
<span>stories and novels: prose--that is, the usual paragraph structure--forming chapters poetry: lines of varying length, forming stanzas<span>plays: spoken lines and stage directions, arranged in scenes and acts
So it's true that a</span></span><span>ll fictional text has its own voice</span>
What the word always stands for would be the definition.