- A short account of an interesting incident - amusing account - Amusing recollection - Humorous account - Humorous story - Humorous turn about one cadet - Interesting tale
- a spoken or written description of an event - an account of imaginary or real people and event - Chronicle - Folk tale - Level of a building - Narrative - Novella, short ...
- a written exercise designed to illustrate a rule - Allegorical story - Allegory - Allegory is mostly comparable - Bible story - Half of parish able to supply allegory - Moral or religious story
- Narrative poem - Pastoral composition (mus) - A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls
of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive
poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by
extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry
or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like.