Entertainment / Literature / Short Story: A brief prose tale, as Edgar Allan Poe labeled it. This work of narrative fiction may contain description, dialogue and commentary, but usually plot functions as the engine driving the art. The best short stories, according to Poe, seek to achieve a single, major, unified impact. See single effect theory, below.
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Short Verb Synonyms: laconic, terse, succinct, pithy, sententious, epigrammatic
Short Adjective Synonyms: direct, straight, straightforward, short and sweet
Short Noun Synonyms: small, little, slight, petite, diminutive, wee, tiny, elfin, minuscule, midget, dwarfish, squat, dumpy, runty, stubby, stunted, pint-sized, knee-high to a grasshopper, sawn-off
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Story Adjective Synonyms: story-line, plot, scenario, (plot) outline, summary, book
Story Verb Synonyms: narrative, tale, recounting, anecdote, yarn, account, recital, chronicle, record, history, legend, myth, fairy tale or story, romance, gest or geste, fable, fabliau, epic, saga, Edda, joke, gag, mystery, detective story, whodunit, thriller, horror
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Science / Weather / Short Wave: A progressive wave of smaller amplitude, wave length, and duration than a long wave. It moves in the same direction as the basic current in which it is embedded and may induce upward vertical motion a MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Short Vowel: As Algeo defines it, 'A vowel of lesser duration than a corresponding long vowel' (329). MORE