Editing Story Structure Spring 2018 (section)

=== Historical story types === 

'''EPIC''' - Archetype of story

'''SAGA''' - large scale achievements of a family

'''YARN''' - goes on and on, ''stringing'' together tails, e.g. Arabian Nights

'''FABLE''' - Fictional moral lesson

'''ALLEGORY''' - narrative metaphor

'''LEGEND''' - Based on historical figures but distorted

'''PARABLE''' - Short germ of a story telling a single truth

'''FOLKTALE''' - Regional

'''GOSSIP''' - Stories about people within a community

'''HISTORY''' - Meta story containing many other stories. An explanation where cause and effect is paramount.

'''WAR''' - Every war has a story, or justification. The need to overcome the adversary. The adversary is always bad and an existential threat - for both sides of every conflict.

'''MYTH''' - Origin story. Cultural symbolism that groups people together.

'''FAIRY TALES''' - Things don't happen in rational ways. Crazy things happen and characters accept it.