#story a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
supertype: fiction a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
part: culmination anticlimax.close
subtype: adventure_story__adventurestory__heroic_tale a story of an adventure
subtype: thriller a suspenseful adventure story
subtype: saga an narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
subtype: mystery_story__mysterystory__mystery__whodunit a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
subtype: detective_story a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution
subtype: murder_mystery a narrative about a murder and how the murderer is discovered
subtype: love_story__romance a story dealing with love
subtype: legend__fable a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
subtype: Arthurian_legend the legend of King Arthur and his court at Camelot
subtype: short_story a prose narrative shorter than a novel
subtype: apologue__fable__parable a short moral story (often with animal characters)
subtype: Aesop's_fables a collection of fables believed to have been written the Greek storyteller Aesop
subtype: myth a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
instance: Gotterdammerung__Ragnarok__Twilight_of_the_Gods
subtype: parable (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message; "the parable of the prodigal son"
subtype: plot the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
subtype: action.plot the series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action"
subtype: storyline__plot_line the plot of a book or play or film
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