| account |
a story or report. [1/6 definitions] |
| allegory |
a story that is written or told to represent an idea or belief. [1/2 definitions] |
| antagonist |
a character who works against the hero of a story. [1/2 definitions] |
| author |
the writer of a book, play, story, or other written work. |
| autobiography |
the story of a person's life written or told by that person. |
| ballad |
a poem or song that tells a story. |
| biography |
the written story of the facts and events of a person's life. |
| character |
a person in a story, play, or movie. [1/6 definitions] |
| comedy |
a play, film, story, or television show that is funny or happy. |
| comic book |
a book or magazine that contains a series of cartoons that tell a story. Some comic books tell funny stories, but many comic books are about adventure, love, or other things. |
| comic strip |
a series of cartoons in a newspaper that tells a funny story. |
| cook up |
(informal) to make up or invent a story; devise. |
| drama |
a story written so that it can be acted out for an audience; play. [1/4 definitions] |
| embroider |
to add made up details to a story. [1/2 definitions] |
| epic |
having to do with a long poem that tells the story of a hero or heroine. [1/3 definitions] |
| episode |
one event in a series of events in a person's life or a story. |
| fable |
a false story; lie. [1/2 definitions] |
| fairy tale |
a story that tells of magical events and creatures in a make-believe world. The stories usually take place in an imaginary past time and often involve characters such as knights and kings and princesses. |
| fantasy |
a kind of story that is very imaginative and contains strange characters, places, or events. [1/2 definitions] |
| fiction |
writing that tells a story made up in a writer's imagination. Fiction is usually written in prose, not poetry. Novels, short stories, and tales are pieces of fiction. [1/2 definitions] |
| fictional |
existing only in a made-up story and not existing in real life. |