Story
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Story can mean:
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[edit] A sequence of events
- A narrative, more specifically:
- A piece of literature (also known as a tale):
- Novel or specifically, an epistolary novel
- Short story or a novella
- Frame tale, a narrative technique
- Fable, fairy tale or tall tale
- Play, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters
- Anecdote, a brief tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident
- Bedtime story, an entertaining or instructive, soporific, and often extemporaneous tale for a child
- Urban legend, sometimes called Whale Tumour Story (WTS) in the UK
- A piece of literature (also known as a tale):
- Plot, the storyline 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.”)
[edit] 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]
- Stories (band), an American rock group formed by Ian Lloyd and Michael Brown of The Left Banke
- 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
[edit] 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
