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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | biography |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account of person's life |
| Synonyms: | autobiography, diary, journal, life, life history, life story, memoir, picture, profile, résumé, saga, sketch, adventures, bio, biog, close-up, confessions, experiences, letters, personal account, personal anecdote, personal narrative, personal record, vita |
| Main Entry: | epic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | long story |
| Synonyms: | legend, narrative, saga, tale, heroic poem |
| Antonyms: | short story |
| 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, mythology, saga, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition, letters, mythos, saw |
| Main Entry: | myth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictitious story, often ancient |
| Synonyms: | allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tradition, fairy story, folk ballad, mythos, tall story |
| Antonyms: | fact, truth, non-fiction |
| Main Entry: | roman a clef |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | novel disguising real people as characters |
| Synonyms: | saga, Bildungsroman, historical fiction, roman-fleuve |
| Main Entry: | legend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story of the past, often fictitious |
| Synonyms: | fable, fiction, folk tale, folklore, lore, myth, mythology, narrative, saga, tale, tradition, folk story, mythos |
| Main Entry: | story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, news |
| Synonyms: | adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger*, comedy, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, gag, history, information, legend, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, novel, parable, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn*, conte, folktale, long and short of it, news item, nonfiction, old saw, potboiler |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | history |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chronicle of events |
| Synonyms: | account, annals, autobiography, biography, diary, epic, journal, narration, narrative, recapitulation, recital, record, relation, report, saga, story, tale, version, memoirs, prehistory |
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