Synonyms

story narrative recital yarn narration

Examples

"a farfetched narrative" "after dinner he told the children stories of his adventures"

Used in print

One of the local callers , a retired brigadier apparently left_over from Kipling 's tales of India , does not approve of the way Larkin gets his birds .

It has come to mean myths , legends , tales , songs , proverbs , riddles , superstitions , rhymes and such literary forms of expression .

Enthusiastically , Americans have swept subliterary and bogus materials like Paul_Bunyan tales , Abe_Lincoln anecdotes and labor_union songs up as true products of our American oral tradition .

In_the_first_place , a good many writers who are said to use folklore , do not , unless one counts an occasional superstition or tale .

It appears that the dominant tendency of Mann 's early tales , however pictorial or even picturesque the surface , is already toward the symbolic , the emblematic , the expressionistic .

Related terms

report message fairytale tall_tale sob_story relation nursery_rhyme tearjerker folktale canterbury_tales introduction body conclusion tell tell tell yarn

Synonyms

story taradiddle tarradiddle fib

Examples

"he told a fib about eating his spinach" "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"

Related terms

lie fairytale fib