Story

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Story can mean:

Contents 1 A sequence of events 2 Other uses 3 Place names 4 See also

[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,
• 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.”)
• A happening in real life
• A comic which is a graphic novel where the actions of event's are drawn rather than written, a comic is usually written though as a short story book with many issues to collect
• Interactive story
  • A pick a path where you choose the path and change the events up by turning to the asked page
  • A video game's story which is consisting of game play's main objectives, cut-scenes and things have to be done to actually progress to finish the game
    • Put roughly games of RPG, adventure, action, horror and other are mainly true interactive stories, though unlike a pick a path the plot is more straight forward and thought out, as in the interactivity is more set on playing through the events rather to merely change the events up as progressed through turning to a certain page(though movie makers will think the opposite and act as if one needs to be made in the format converting, this results in video game movies merely with cameos and movie rips [example: bullet time, etc.] and poor box office sales and mockery of the video game movie genre as immature)

[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]
• Story, an American literary magazine from 1931 to 2000.
• Stories (band), an American rock group formed by Ian Lloyd and Michael Brown of The Left Banke
• The Story (band), a folk-pop duo featuring Jonatha Brooke and Jennifer Kimball
• 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
  

[edit] See also

• Story (surname)
• Storytelling
• Story arc
• Organization story
• Organizational storytelling