3.5.4 Story

Use this domain for words referring to a story.

Louw Nida Codes: 
33C Discourse Types
  • What words refer to a story?
    story, tale,
  • What words refer to telling a story?
    tell a story, relate, narrate
  • What words refer to a story about a person's life?
    my/your/his story, tell about yourself, biography, biographical, biographer, autobiography, autobiographical,
  • What words refer to someone who tells a story?
    storyteller, narrator,

    • 3.5.4.1 Fable, myth

    Use this domain for words referring to a fable or myth--a story that people tell that is not true.

    OMC Codes: 
    118 Fiction
  • What words refer to fables?
    fable, myth, tale, fairytale, tall tale, legend, fiction, folklore, lore, parable,

    • 3.5.4.2 Saying, proverb

    Use this domain for words referring to a saying or proverb--a short thing that people say to teach something.

  • What words refer to a saying?
    saying, proverb, adage, axiom, byword, expression, formula, maxim, moral, saw, truism, household word, well-turned phrase
  • What words refer to a saying taken from a book or movie?
    quotation,
  • What words refer to a saying used by someone to express their beliefs?
    motto, slogan, catchphrase,
  • What words refer to a saying that is used so often that people think it is stupid?
    cliché, platitude,
  • What words describe a saying?
    proverbial, axiomatic, pithy, succinct, terse,
  • What words do people use to begin a saying?
    as the saying goes, as they say, to coin a phrase,

    • 3.5.4.3 Riddle

    Use this domain for words referring to a riddle--something someone says that is hard to understand.

  • What words are used for short sayings or questions that have a meaning that someone has to figure out?
    riddle, conundrum, enigma, puzzle, problem
  • What words are used of telling a riddle?
    tell a riddle, give a riddle
  • What words are used of solving a riddle?
    solve the riddle, figure out the riddle, guess the meaning of the riddle, tell the meaning of the riddle

    • 3.5.4.4 Poetry

    Use this domain for words related to poetry.

    OMC Codes: 
    5310 Verbal Arts
  • What words refer to poems?
    poetry, poem, poetic, sonnet, verse, rhyme, nursery rhyme, ballad, epic poem
  • What words refer to a collection of poems?
    anthology
  • What words refer to a person who writes poetry?
    poet
  • What words refer to saying a poem?
    recite
  • What words refer to a part of a poem?
    line, stanza, verse
  • What words refer to the features of a poem?
    rhyme, rhythm

    • 3.5.4.5 History

    Use this domain for words related to history.

    OMC Codes: 
    1210 Archaeological Excavation Methods
    1211 Dating Methods in Archaeology
    1212 Laboratory Analysis of Materials Other Than Dating Methods in Archaeology
    1213 Comparative Data [in Reconstructing History]
    129 Archaiological Survey Methods
    138 Post Depositional Processes in Archaeological Sites
    159 Life History Materials
    170 History and Culture Change
    171 Comparative Evidence
    Distributional Evidence
    1710 Cultural Revitalization and Ethnogenesis
    172 Prehistory
    Archaeology
    173 Traditional History
    174 Historical Reconstruction
    175 History
    Recorded History
    176 Innovation
    177 Acculturation and Culture Contact
    178 Sociocultural Trends
    910 Archaeological Measures, Techniques and Analysis
    911 Chronologies and Cultural Sequences
    912 Cultural Stratigraphy
    913 Functional Specialization
    914 Typologies and Classification
    915 Archaeological Inventories
  • What words refer to history?
    history, historical, archaeology, chronology,
  • What words refer to a time period in history?
    era, epoch, civilization, period, age
  • What words refer to a person who studies history?
    historian, archaeologist

    • 3.5.4.6 Verbal tradition

    Use this domain for words referring to verbal tradition--something that your ancestors told to each successive generation.

  • What words refer to verbal tradition?
    verbal tradition, hand down a tradition