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The story of a person's life, written or told by that person.
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autobiography
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The story of a real person's life, written or told by another person.
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biography
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A story written to be acted out in front of an audience; script
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drama (play)
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A brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral
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fable
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A story with no known author that orginally was passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth.
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folk tale
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A fictional prose narrative that is usually fewer than 20 pages long and contains a plot.
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short story
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A story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods or other superhuman beings
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myth
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Prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts.
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nonfiction
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A fictional story that uses all the elements of a short story--plot, character, setting, theme--but is much longer; a fiction book
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novel
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A kind of rhythmic language that appeals to the senses, emotion, and imagination; sometimes has rhyme; often written in stanzas
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poetry
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a novel, short story, play, or film whose plot involves a crime or other event that remains puzzlingly unsolved until the very end.
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mystery
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