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mag7wrimo25 synonyms for "story" ... and does it really matter what we call it as long as we keep writing them??
25 Synonyms for “Story”
From Daily Writing Tips
So, you’re writing a story? What kind of story? No, don’t unreel the plot for me. Provide some context for the narrative style by telling me what your model is for your tale. This is not about genre, though there may be some overlap; it’s all about the form. Choose from one or more of these words denoting the storytelling technique:
1. Account: a retelling of an event or series of events, sometimes with a connotation of bias or at least subjectivity
2. Anecdote: a short, entertaining story, often involving the person telling it
3. Allegory: a story that expresses ideas about human nature through the actions of stock characters undergoing challenges
4. Annals: historical records of events, generally without subjective annotation
5. Bedtime story: a story read or recited to children before they go to sleep, or anything resembling one at face value or ironically
6. Bildungsroman (German: “education novel”): a novel that charts the lead character’s psychological development
7. Chronicle (see annals)
8. Exemplum: an anecdote or similar story intended to provide a moral or argue a point
9. Fable: a story with supernatural or imaginary elements (such as anthropomorphic animals), often to make an observation about human nature
10. Fairy tale: a story with improbable elements including magic, often incorporating such formulas as a quest, a granting of three wishes, and triumph over evil forces
11. Folktale: a tale originally passed down orally featuring vague, universal story elements
12. Legend: a story significant to a culture and originally passed down as if it had actually occurred
13. Myth: a putatively factual account from the distant past that figuratively explains a cultural phenomenon
14. Narrative: a relation of factual or fictitious events
15. Novel: a long, complicated story featuring an assortment of characters experiencing a series of events
16. Novelette: a short novel
17. Novella (see novelette)
18. Parable: a short tale that a religious or moral principle
19: Record: (see annals)
20: Roman a clef (French, “novel with a key”): a story with thinly disguised versions of actual characters and events
21: Short story: a tale shorter than a novel, featuring relatively few characters and focusing less on plot than on mood
22: Short short story: an especially brief story
23: Tall tale: a story intended to entertain through the introduction of exaggerated elements
24: Urban legend/urban myth: a moralistic or sensational story presented and widely perceived as fact
25: Yarn: a story that is adventurous or humorous or both, and perhaps is a tall tale (see “tall tale,” above)
25 Synonyms for “Story”
From Daily Writing Tips
So, you’re writing a story? What kind of story? No, don’t unreel the plot for me. Provide some context for the narrative style by telling me what your model is for your tale. This is not about genre, though there may be some overlap; it’s all about the form. Choose from one or more of these words denoting the storytelling technique:
1. Account: a retelling of an event or series of events, sometimes with a connotation of bias or at least subjectivity
2. Anecdote: a short, entertaining story, often involving the person telling it
3. Allegory: a story that expresses ideas about human nature through the actions of stock characters undergoing challenges
4. Annals: historical records of events, generally without subjective annotation
5. Bedtime story: a story read or recited to children before they go to sleep, or anything resembling one at face value or ironically
6. Bildungsroman (German: “education novel”): a novel that charts the lead character’s psychological development
7. Chronicle (see annals)
8. Exemplum: an anecdote or similar story intended to provide a moral or argue a point
9. Fable: a story with supernatural or imaginary elements (such as anthropomorphic animals), often to make an observation about human nature
10. Fairy tale: a story with improbable elements including magic, often incorporating such formulas as a quest, a granting of three wishes, and triumph over evil forces
11. Folktale: a tale originally passed down orally featuring vague, universal story elements
12. Legend: a story significant to a culture and originally passed down as if it had actually occurred
13. Myth: a putatively factual account from the distant past that figuratively explains a cultural phenomenon
14. Narrative: a relation of factual or fictitious events
15. Novel: a long, complicated story featuring an assortment of characters experiencing a series of events
16. Novelette: a short novel
17. Novella (see novelette)
18. Parable: a short tale that a religious or moral principle
19: Record: (see annals)
20: Roman a clef (French, “novel with a key”): a story with thinly disguised versions of actual characters and events
21: Short story: a tale shorter than a novel, featuring relatively few characters and focusing less on plot than on mood
22: Short short story: an especially brief story
23: Tall tale: a story intended to entertain through the introduction of exaggerated elements
24: Urban legend/urban myth: a moralistic or sensational story presented and widely perceived as fact
25: Yarn: a story that is adventurous or humorous or both, and perhaps is a tall tale (see “tall tale,” above)