| Main Entry: | saga |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story, often long |
Synonyms: |
adventure, chronicle, epic, legend, narrative, soap opera, tale, yarn |
| Notes: | epics are long poems about legendary heroes; sagas are prose epics about famous men and women, especially of medieval times |
| Main Entry: | biography |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of person's life |
Synonyms: |
adventures, autobiography, bio, biog, close-up, confessions, diary, experiences, journal, letters, life, life history, life story, memoir, personal account, personal anecdote, personal narrative, personal record, picture, profile, résumé, saga, sketch, vita |
| Main Entry: | epic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | long story |
Synonyms: |
heroic poem, legend, narrative, saga, tale |
| Notes: | epics are long poems about legendary heroes; sagas are prose epics about famous men and women, especially of medieval times |
Antonyms: |
short story |
| Main Entry: | history |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chronicle of events |
Synonyms: |
account, annals, autobiography, biography, diary, epic, journal, memoirs, narration, narrative, prehistory, recapitulation, recital, record, relation, report, saga, story, tale, version |
| Main Entry: | legend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story of the past, often fictitious |
Synonyms: |
fable, fiction, folk story, folk tale, folklore, lore, myth, mythology, mythos, narrative, saga, tale, tradition |
| Main Entry: | lore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | myths, traditional wisdom |
Synonyms: |
adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, letters, mythology, mythos, saga, saw, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition |
| Main Entry: | myth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictitious story, often ancient |
Synonyms: |
allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fairy story, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk ballad, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, mythos, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tall story, tradition |
Antonyms: |
fact, non-fiction, truth |
| Main Entry: | story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, news |
Synonyms: |
adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger, comedy, conte, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, folktale, gag, history, information, legend, long and short of it, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, news item, nonfiction, novel, old saw, parable, potboiler, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn |
| Main Entry: | tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story |
Synonyms: |
account, anecdote, fable, fairy tale, fiction, folk tale, legend, myth, narration, narrative, novel, relation, report, romance, saga, short story, yarn |
| Main Entry: | roman a clef |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | novel disguising real people as characters |
Synonyms: |
Bildungsroman, historical fiction, roman-fleuve, saga |