STORY

'Story' can mean:

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A sequence of events

Other uses

Place names

See also

A sequence of events

★ A narrative, more specifically:

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★ A piece of literature (also known as a tale):

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★ Novel or specifically, an epistolary novel

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★ Short story or a novella

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★ Frame tale, a narrative technique

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★ Fable, fairy tale or tall tale

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★ Play, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters

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★ Anecdote, a brief tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident

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★ A branching narrative, such as in a gamebook or certain video games

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★ Bedtime story, an entertaining or instructive, soporific, and often extemporaneous tale for a child

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★ Urban legend

★ Plot, the underlying structure holding a narrative together (also in the context of movies)

★ An essay or news article, in journalism slang

★ Organization story, in organization studies, is fragmented, collectively enacted, and co-constructed

★ User story is a way of illustrating software requirements, often used in extreme programming

★ A depiction of history

★ In older American slang, a soap opera, (e.g., “I’ll talk to you later; my story is on.”)

★ A happening in real life

★ Along with parable, a basic principle or pattern of the human mind^[1]

Other uses

★ A floor of a building is also called a 'story' or 'storey'. It typically corresponds to a height of 8 to 14 feet, and usually approximately 10 feet in commercial buildings.[1]

★ ''Story'', an American literary magazine from 1931 to 2000.

★ Stories (band), an American rock group formed by Ian Lloyd and Michael Brown of ''The Left Banke''

★ The Story (band), a folk-pop duo featuring Jonatha Brooke and Jennifer Kimball

★ ''The Story'' (album), a 2006 album by Bizzy Bone

★ ''The Story with Dick Gordon'', an interview program produced by North Carolina Public Radio and distributed by American Public Media

★ The Story (Brandi Carlile album), an album by folk rock singer Brandi Carlile.

Place names

★ Story, Indiana, a village in Brown County, Indiana

★ Story City, Iowa, a city in Story County, Iowa, originally named "Fairview"

★ Story County, Iowa, a county in Central Iowa

See also

★ Story (surname)

★ Storytelling

★ Story arc

★ Organization story

★ Organizational storytelling