| 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: | poem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece |
Synonyms: |
ballad, beat, blank verse, composition, creation, epic, free verse, haiku, limerick, lines, lyric, ode, poesy, poetry, quatrain, rhyme, rime, rune, sestina, song, sonnet, verse, villanelle, words, writing |
Antonyms: |
prose |
| 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: | 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: | verse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written composition |
Synonyms: |
ballad, epic, jingle, lay, lyric, ode, poem, poesy, poetry, rhyme, rune, song, sonnet, stanza |
| Main Entry: | poesy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poem |
Synonyms: |
ballad, beat*, blank verse, composition, creation, epic, free verse, haiku, limerick, lines, lyric, ode, poetry, quatrain, rhyme, rime, rune, sestina, song, sonnet, verse, villanelle, words, writing |