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| a long and often involved story or account, usually telling of incredible or fantastic events |
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| Traditional stories and legends, transmitted orally (rather than in writing) from generation to generation. |
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| any belief or story passed on traditionally, especially one considered to be false or based on superstition. |
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| A hero in a story, weather real or fake. |
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| a story about fairies or other mythical or magical beings, esp one of traditional origin told to children |
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| a popular story handed down from earlier times whose truth has not been ascertained |
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| any invented story, idea, or concept: |
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| any invented story, idea, or concept: |
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| a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters |
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| a poem, play, picture, etc, in which the apparent meaning of the characters and events is used to symbolize a deeper moral or spiritual meaning |
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| in literature, an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text. Allusion is distinguished from such devices as direct quote and imitation or parody. |
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| a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. |
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| an exagerated, unreliable story. |
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| a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing |
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| noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style |
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| a main character in an epic whose legendary or heroic actions are central to his/her culture, race, or nation |
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