See also narrative, speaking and listening, story telling These are short accounts usually of an event or something that happened to the teller or writer or someone known to them. From the earliest stage young children enjoy telling others about...

An anecdote is a short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident. It may be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always based on real life, an incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not,...