WRITTEN REPORT ON

DIFFERENT TYPES OF STORIES

By: Hanna B. Martinez

What is a story?
The telling of a happening or
connected series of happenings,
whether true or fictitious; account;
narration
An account of past event in
someone's life or in the development
of something.
An account of imaginary or real
people and events told for
entertainment.
TYPES OF STORIES:
Anecdote- an anecdote was a little-known,
entertaining facts of history or biography;
now, a short, often entertaining account of
some happening, usually personal or
biographical
Apologue- An apologue is a short story or
fable which provides a simple moral lesson.
Fable- Apologues and fables are synonyms, as
apologues are a type of fable, or moral tale.
Whereas apologues are specifically confined
to stories using animal characters, fables use
both animal and human characters.
Apologues tend to focus more on the moral,
whereas fables focus more on weaving a
story.
Parable-similar to fables and apologues,
parables are also simple moral tales. Parables
are different from fables and apologues in
that they do not use animal characters.
Rather, they tell a story using human
characters, such as the parables of
Christianity or Islam.
Myth- a traditional story of unknown
authorship, ostensibly with a historical basis,
but serving usually to explain some
phenomenon of nature, the origin of man, or
the customs, institutions, religious rites of a
people: myths usually involve the exploits of
gods and heroes.
Legends- to give an account of, often at
regular intervals; give information about
(something seen, done).
Folklore- is oral history that is preserved by
the people of the culture, consisting of
traditions belonging to a specific culture.
Tale- something told or related; relation or a
recital of happenings; or a story or account of
true, legendary, or fictitious events;
narrative; or a literary composition in
narrative form
Chronicle- a historical record or register of
facts or events arranged in the order in which
they happened.
History- it deals systematically with the past;
a recording, analyzing, correlating, and
explaining of past events.
-all recorded events of the past
.News- new information about anything; or
reports, collectively, of recent happenings,
especially. Those broadcast over radio or TV,
printed in a newspaper.
Rumor- general talk not based on definite
knowledge; mere gossip; hearsay; an
unconfirmed report, story, or statement in
general circulation
Joke- anything said or done to arouse
laughter; such as a funny anecdote with a
punch line or an amusing trick played on
someone
Short story- a fictitious literary composition
in prose or poetry, shorter than a novel;
narrative; tale
Novella- a relatively long fictional prose
narrative with a more or less complex plot or
pattern of events, about actions, feelings,
motives, of a group of characters
Epic- a long narrative poem in a dignified
style about the deeds of a traditional or
historical hero or heroes
Drama- a literary composition that tells a
story, usually of human conflict, by means of
dialogue and action, to be performed by
actors; play; now often any play that is not a
comedy
Tragedy- a serious play or drama typically
dealing with the problems of a central
character, leading to an unhappy or
disastrous ending brought on, as in ancient
drama, by fate and a tragic flaw in this
character, or, in modern drama, usually by
moral weakness, psychological
maladjustment, or social pressures
Comedy- originally, a drama or narrative with
a happy ending or non tragic theme
Farce- an exaggerated comedy based on
broadly humorous or highly unlikely
situations
Parody- a literary or musical work imitating
the characteristic style of some other work or
of a writer or composer in a satirical or
humorous way, usually by applying it to an
inappropriate subject
Satire- a literary work in which vices, follies,
stupidities or abuses, are held up to ridicule
and contempt.