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a short narrative story or short novel, e.g. The Snow Goose (Gallico). Note that a novella is not a short story, which has a particular format and is normally focused on a single character and/or incident.
a clause that can stand alone and form a complete sentence, e.g. The children ate their supper...
a style of writing and speaking that uses colloquial language, e.g. Listen, pal, can you spare...
a short work of fiction with fully developed setting, theme, characters, action, plot and...
a style of writing and speaking that is dramatises events, e.g. Horses drowned, houses washed...
a short story with a moral message. The most common kind is the beast fable in which animals...