types of stories

the story

A story is a set of events narrated by a writer or storyteller, and it includes an incident or a group of incidents related to human personalities that differ in their ways of living and their interaction with life situations. To follow up and know the end, which is an event narrated by a person, or a written event whose purpose is pleasure and benefit, as it was known by many names in Arab history, and among these names: the story, the myth, and the news; Where it is considered news transmitted orally or in writing, and it can be said in short that the story is a tale that revolves around moving people and events, either it is real and realistic, or it is a figment of the imagination.

As for the meaning of the story in the language, it is, as stated in the Intermediate Dictionary, that it is (a sentence of speech, which is a hadith, a matter, and a matter, and it is a long story derived from imagination, reality, or from both together, and is based on specific rules of literary art, and its combination Stories), and the story is considered a modern art of literature, as it expresses a reality that may exist, but considering it as an independent art has been since the beginning of the nineteenth century. However, its development and the interest of critics in it increased with the beginning of the twentieth century, and opinions about it varied. Some critics considered it a modern work of art that had no connection to the past, while the more correct and correct opinion was that it had roots extending back to the ancient past. Since it did not exist from nothing, just as every type of art must be based on previous arts from the past, examples of this include the shrines of Badi’ al-Zaman al-Hamdhani and those who followed in his path, as his shrines represented the first signs of the ancient art of story.

It is worth noting that stories and tales have been known since ancient times. Because of the urgent human need to express linguistically his conditions, feelings, and experiences in life; Where fairy tales spread at the beginning, and people circulated them orally, so the stories were the shelter that people resorted to to rest from the burdens of life and achieve pleasure, and to listen to the experiences of parents and grandparents, and to look through them to future hopes, and the story is one of the guiding means in human life; Where the human soul tends to hear it; Because of its impact on the psyche and its emotions, especially when one imagines himself inside the incidents that occur in it, and it also evokes in the listener feelings and feelings that make him feel his emotional participation in the people of the story.

Types of fictional work

The story expresses an incident or a group of incidents, as we mentioned earlier, and these incidents may have sparked certain feelings in the same writer; Which prompted him to write it, and these incidents may be long that include the life of an individual or an entire group and it is called a novel, and it may be medium that records a stage of life and is called the story, and it can also be short that reviews part of a stage and is called the short story, and in the following is an explanation of the types of work The stories according to the length or shortness of each of them:

The short or short story

It includes presenting a specific part or a stage of life, and the events of the story usually revolve around this small part that it presents, and it is its main focus, in which the writer must ensure that the story remains within it; In order for his fictional work not to fail, and for the story not to deviate from its short character, it is required for the success of the short story that the writer uses all his artistic and expressive capabilities to formulate it; By using words that leave an impact on the soul of those who read it, and for the story to be expressive and suggestive, and it is not required that the focus of the short story be a specific person or incident, but rather the focus can be an internal dialogue, or an internal psychological description of certain impressions about an incident, nor Its writer is committed to a beginning and an end, and its pages usually range from 3 to 20 pages.

the story

The story describes a specific stage of life in detail, in which horizons open up for the writer to express literary and artistic events around which the story revolves, whether they relate to one character or several characters, provided that it begins with a specific point and ends with another point, and that the events are logically coordinated, whether Whether it was realistic or unrealistic, it must have a beginning and end date, and the method of presenting events should be interesting to the reader, and the story should be based on description and photography, taking into account the presence of the element of suspense and excitement that brings the reader to a knot; It is the stage in which the events worsen, and which ends with the solution of the knot that lies at the end of the story. As for the elements that the story is required to contain; It is the prelude to the events at the beginning, the node in which the events are aggravated, and finally the conclusion in which the knot is resolved, and the story is a medium between the story and the novel, and the number of pages of the story ranges from 20 to 70 pages.

the novel

The novel is a type of narrative work in which the writer does not specify a specific length, and its number of pages exceeds 70 pages. It is considered one of the longest types of narrative work and the most detail-oriented, and its focus can be any of the elements of the story without any restrictions. Provided that the writer fully comprehends the element that will be the focus of the novel, and describes it in detail. For example, if the focus is a specific time period, the writer must describe it accurately so that the reader gets a comprehensive and accurate idea about it. However, if the focus of the novel is a specific character, the writer must It chronicles this character, mentioning all aspects of her life from beginning to end.

The writer of the novel must mention all the details and particles that serve the novel and serve the idea to be presented in it, so the writer must take advantage of the lack of limitation of the novel in mentioning the various details and elaboration on them. : The miserable novel, the novel Crime and Punishment, and many other novels that are important historical documents in the countries in which they were published.

the play

The play is a narrative, dialogical work that usually includes artistic effects and different scenes, and two aspects are taken into account: the aspect of the written text, and the aspect of expressive acting that conveys the text live to the viewers. It is worth noting that there are elements that the story shares with the play, which are: the event. , characters, idea, time and place; What distinguishes the play is the presence of the element of structure, dialogue, and conflict. The play is divided into two parts: tragedy and comedy, or tragedy and comedy. In modern contemporary plays, tragedy is usually mixed with comedy.

Story sources

The types of fictional work are divided in terms of sources into realistic stories and fictional stories. Many social, environmental and scientific problems.