story
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story |
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Clio, Muse of history, account, action, adventures, alibi, allegation, allegory, anagnorisis, anecdotage, anecdote, angle, annals, architectonics, architecture, argument, article, assertion, atmosphere, autobiography, back-fence gossip, background, band, beat, bed, bedding, belly laugh, belt, biographical sketch, biography, blague, blue story,
book, budget of news, case history,
catastrophe, characterization, chitchat, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, clerestory, cock-and-bull story, color, complication, confabulation, confessions, contention, continuity,
contrivance, copy, couche,
course, curriculum vitae, deck,
denouement, description, design, detective story, development, device, diary, dirty joke, dirty story,
dispatch, double entendre, entresol, epic, episode, epos, ethnic joke, exaggeration, exclusive, excuse, experiences, fable, fabliau, fabrication, facts, fairy, fairy tale, falling action, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, feature, fib, fiction, first floor, fish story, flam, flat, flimflam, floor, folktale,
fortunes, fun, funny story, gag, gallery, gest, ghost story, gimmick, good one, good story, gossip, gossiping, gossipmongering, gossipry, ground floor, groundless rumor,
hagiography, hagiology, half-truth,
historiography, history, howler,
idle talk, incident, information, item, jape, jest, jestbook, joke, journal, laugh, layer, ledge, legal fiction, legend, level, lie, life, life and letters, life story, line, little white lie, local color, martyrology, measures, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, mendacity, mezzanine, mezzanine floor, mood,
motif, movement, mystery, myth, mythos, narration, narrative, necrology,
news, news item, newsmongering, obituary, overlayer, overstory, panic, parable, peripeteia, photobiography, piece, piece of gossip, pious fiction,
plan, play, plot, point, prevarication, profile, recital, recognition, record, recounting, release, report, representation, resume, rez-de-chaussee, rib
tickler, riot, rising action, romance,
saga, scenario, scheme,
scoop, scream, seam, secondary plot, shelf, sick joke,
sidesplitter, sight gag, slant, slight stretching, sport, spot news, stage, statement, step, stratum, street floor, structure, subject, subplot, substratum,
summary, superstratum, switch,
tale, talebearing, taletelling,
talk, tall story, tall tale,
taradiddle, tattle, testimony,
thematic development, theme, theory of history, thickness, thriller, tidings, tier, tittle-tattle, tone, topic, topsoil,
trumped-up story, twist, underlayer,
understory, understratum, untruth, version, visual joke, wheeze, white lie, whodunit, wow,
yarn, zone
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cover story |
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alibi, apology, blind, cloak, color, cover-up, cover, device, excuse, facade, feint, front, gloss, guise, handle, lame excuse, locus standi, mask, ostensible motive, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext, protestation, public motive, put-off, refuge, screen, semblance, sham, show, smoke screen,
stalking-horse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, varnish, veil
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fish story |
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big talk, blague, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cock-and-bull story, exaggeration, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fancy talk, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fine talk, flam, flimflam, gas, ghost story, half-truth, highfalutin, highfaluting,
hot air, legal fiction, lie,
little white lie, mendacity, pious fiction, prevarication, slight stretching, story,
tale, tall story, tall tale,
tall talk, taradiddle, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, yarn
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ghost story |
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Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, apologue, bedtime story, blague, cock-and-bull story, detective story, exaggeration, fable, fabliau, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fantasy, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam,
folk story, folktale, gest,
half-truth, horse opera, legal
fiction, legend, lie, little white lie,
love story, mendacity, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, parable, pious fiction, prevarication,
romance, science fiction, shocker, slight stretching, space fiction, space opera,
story, suspense story, tale,
tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, thriller, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, whodunit, work of fiction,
yarn
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life story |
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Clio, Muse of history, adventures, annals, autobiography, biographical sketch,
biography, case history, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, confessions, curriculum vitae, diary, experiences, fortunes, hagiography, hagiology,
historiography, history, journal,
legend, life, life and letters,
martyrology, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, necrology, obituary, photobiography, profile, record, resume, story, theory of history
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love story |
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Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, apologue, bedtime story, detective story, fable,
fabliau, fairy tale, fantasy,
fiction, folk story, folktale,
gest, ghost story, horse opera, legend, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, parable, romance, science fiction, shocker, space fiction, space opera, suspense story, thriller, whodunit, work of fiction
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mystery story |
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Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, apologue, bedtime story, detective story, fable,
fabliau, fairy tale, fantasy,
fiction, folk story, folktale,
gest, ghost story, horse opera, legend, love story, mystery, myth, mythology,
mythos, nursery tale, parable,
romance, science fiction, shocker, space fiction, space opera, suspense story, thriller, whodunit, work of fiction
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old story |
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auld lang syne, banality, bromide, chestnut, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, corn, days beyond recall, days of old, days of yore, early times,
eld, familiar tune, good old times, hackneyed
saying, lang syne, lieu commun, locus communis,
long ago, old days, old joke,
old saw, old song, old times,
olden times, platitude, prosaicism,
prosaism, prose, reiteration,
retold story, same old story, stereotyped saying, the olden time, times of old, times of yore, trite saying, triticism, twice-told tale, way back, yore, yoretime
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short story |
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Bildungsroman, Gothic novel, comic novel, detective novel, dime novel, dreadful, epistolary novel,
erotic novel, historical novel, nouvelle, novel, novel of character, novel of ideas, novel of incident,
novel of manners, novel of sensibility, novelette, novella, penny dreadful, picaresque novel, pornographic novel, problem novel, proletarian novel, propaganda novel, psychological novel,
regional novel, river novel, roman-fleuve, roman, roman a clef, satirical novel, science-fiction novel,
sentimental novel, shilling shocker, short-short, sociological novel, storiette, stream-of-consciousness novel, thesis novel, vignette
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sob story |
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bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, hearts-and-flowers, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism,
oversentimentality, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sweetness and light, tearjerker
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tall story |
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big talk, blague, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cock-and-bull story, exaggeration, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fancy talk, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fine talk, fish story, flam, flimflam, gas, ghost story, half-truth, highfalutin,
highfaluting, hot air, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, mendacity, pious fiction, prevarication, slight stretching, story, tale, tall tale, tall
talk, taradiddle, trumped-up story, untruth, white lie, yarn
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Main entries similar to: story
account, action, adventure, angle, annals, architecture, argument, article, atmosphere, autobiography, background, band, beat,
bed, bedding, belt, biography, case history, catastrophe, characterization, chitchat, chronicle, chronology, clerestory, Clio, color, complication, composition, confessions, continuity, contrivance, copy, course, deceive, deck, delineation, denouement, description, design, development, device, diary, dispatch, dope, double entendre, epic, episode, equivocate, exaggerate, exaggeration, exclusive, excuse, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsify, falsity, fib, fiction, fish
story, flam, flat, flimflam, floor, fortune, fun, gag, gallery,
ghost story, gimmick, gossip, ground floor, hagiography,
half-truth, history, howler, idle talk, incident, invention, jape, jest,
joke, journal, laugh, ledge, legend, level, lie, life, life story, line, local color, memoir, memorabilia, memorial, mendacity, mislead, misrepresentation, mood, motif, movement, myth,
mythos, narration, narrative, necrology, news, novel, obituary, panic,
piece, plan, play, plot, point, portrait, pretence, prevaricate,
prevarication, profile, recital, recognition, record, relation, release, report, resume, riot, romance, scheme, scoop,
score, scream, seam, shelf, slant, sport, stage, step, stratum, stretch the truth, structure, subject, subplot, substratum, switch, tale, talebearing, talk, tall story, tattle, theme, thickness, tier, tittle-tattle, tone, topic, topsoil, twist, underlayer, untruth, version, wheeze, white lie, wow, yarn
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