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novella A prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel short story a work of fiction generally read in one sitting, does not have chapters folk tale a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk myth A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society. fiction a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact theme a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work, lesson taught in a story plot the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc., sequence of events in a work of fiction conflict opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) fable a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters realistic fiction fictional story where people and events are realistic and could happen in real life