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A narrative or story is a report of connected events, real or imaginary , presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, or still or moving images , [1] [2] or both. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare , "to tell", which is derived from the adjective gnarus , "knowing" or "skilled". [3] Narrative can be organized in a number of thematic or formal categories: non-fiction (such as definitively including creative non-fiction , biography , journalism , transcript poetry , and historiography ); fictionalization of historical events (such as anecdote , myth , legend , and historical fiction ); and fiction proper (such as literature in prose and sometimes poetry , such as short stories , novels , and narrative poems and songs , and imaginary narratives as portrayed in other textual forms, games, or l...