| Term | Definition |
| Accumulative Authorship | 1) Rythm, Beath, and told orally |
| Narratives | 2) Opening, Build Up, Problem, Solution, End |
| Epic | 3) Written Down Narratives, Heroic deeds |
| Folk Tails and Fairy Tales | 4) Peasant Entertainment envolving supernatural powers |
| Medieval Romance | 5) Story of Chivalry, involving knights, love, dragons |
| Picaresque | 6) Series of stories with lose connection, Picaro (protagonist) gets by on his wit |
| Pastoral Romance | 7) Actual romance with a soap opera feel |
| Novel | 8) Robinson Cruso 1719 |
| Order of the Evolution of Fiction | 1) Accumulative Authorship, 2)Narratives, 3) Epic , 4)Fairy Tales, 5) Medieval Romance, 6) Picaresque, 7) Pastoral Romance, 8) Novel, 9) Short Story |
| Verisimilitude | Attempt to describe in extreme detail to make it seem more real |