Story

Story has several different meanings as outlined below.

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• As literature, a story, also known as a tale, may refer to:
• A novel or specifically, an epistolary novel
• A short story or a novella.
• The plot, or storyline holding a story together, and as such is also used in the context of plays and movies
• A frame tale
• A fable, fairy tale or tall tale (a tale should not be confused with a tail, as in the tail of an animal)
• An anecdote.
• In journalistic slang, a written piece or article.
• A bedtime story, an entertaining or instructive, soporific, and often extemporaneous tale for a child.
• A depiction of history.
• A tall tale or fabrication.
 
Story: American usage ►