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| Narration: the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events |
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| The unwritten lore (stories, proverbs, riddles and songs) of a culture |
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| A story circulated by word of mouth among the common folk |
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| A person that the culture aspires to whether real or not, a champion. |
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| A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events |
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| Traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people |
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| A short moral story (often with animal characters |
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| Fable: a short moral story (often with animal characters) |
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| A reference, explicit or implicit, to a culture's classical literature |
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| A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy |
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| An improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story |
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| A narrative song with a recurrent refrain |
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| Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic |
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| An epic hero is an important figure from a history or legend, usually favored by or even partially descended from deities |
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