Types of Stories

3. Story which provides an extended step-by-step comparison for the purpose of explanation
5. The main character is involved in a bold, difficult, exciting or dangerous conflict
6. revolves around a great fear of, or stress on, death and dying in a strange, gruesome way; it is usually a creation of setting and atmosphere
8. Story which has incredible characters and situations and which appeals to our sense of “make believe”
10. Term means “to imply something else” and the story is one in which specific characters in concrete situations are intended to represent wider general truths about human experience – in effect, they are symbolic
11. Story which presents an example of human behavior through animals which talk and act like human types they represent; the story usually has a moral in the form of an epigram (a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement)

1. similar to an analogy, but which is designed to teach a definite lesson
2. Fiction: A story which places ordinary human characters in conditions created by science, or which portrays the doings and workings of the unknown
4. unusual characters, events or situations are presented in order to make the reader laugh
7. built upon suspense and which plays on the curiosity of the reader
9. Tale: An exaggerated story, told matter-of-factly with the intention of providing humor