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A Young Girl Reading (c.1776) by Fragonard

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For the purpose of this wiki, a story is:

A sequence of events

• A narrative, more specifically:
  • A piece of literature (also known as a tale):
    • Novel or specifically, an epistolary novel
    • Short story or a novella
    • Frame tale, a narrative technique
    • Fable, fairy tale or tall tale
    • Play, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters
    • Anecdote, a brief tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident
  • Bedtime story, an entertaining or instructive, soporific, and often extemporaneous tale for a child
  • Urban legend,
• Plot, the storyline holding a narrative together (also in the context of movies)
• An essay or news article, in journalism slang
• A depiction of history
• In older American slang, a soap opera, (e.g., “I’ll talk to you later; my story is on.”)
• A happening in real life
• Along with parable, a basic principle or pattern of the human mind
• A comic which is a graphic novel where the actions of event's are drawn rather than written, a comic is usually written though as a short story book with many issues to collect
• Interactive story

Etymology

From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie, from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Doublet of history and storey.

Namesakes

• A Cock and Bull Story
• A Story of Sin
• Cruel Story of Youth
• Dream Story
• Love Story
• Story of O
• Story of the Eye
• The Las Vegas Story
• The Zoo Story
• "This is not a story" by Diderot
• Human-interest story

See also

fictionalization, storytelling

• Traditional story
• Storytelling
• Metastory
• Narrative
• Narratology
• Storybook architecture