Styles
Stories
Genres
Narratives
100
A short symbolic story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
What is Parable?
100
A children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands.
What are Fairy Stories?
100
A novel, play, or movie dealing with a puzzling crime, esp. a murder.
What is Mystery?
100
A personal story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
What is Personal Narrative?
200
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.
What is a Ballad?
200
An account of an unsettling or unfortunate occurrence.
What are Horror Stories?
200
A novel or other prose narrative depicting heroic or marvelous deeds, pageantry, romantic exploits,etc., usually in a historical or imaginary setting.
What is Romance?
200
A theory that events are determined or influenced by conditions and inherent processes beyond the control of humans.
What is a Historical Narrative?
300
A story purported to be historical in nature, but without substantiation.
What is a Legend?
300
A story of an adventure.
What are Adventure Stories?
300
Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.
What is Science Fiction?
400
A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
What is a Fable?
500
A traditional story, which may describe the origins of the world and/or of a people. A myth is an attempt to explain mysteries, supernatural events, and cultural traditions. Sometimes sacred in nature, a myth can involve gods or other creatures.
What is a Myth?
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