Showing posts with label anecdote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anecdote. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
anecdote
An anecdote is a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. It may be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. An anecdote is always presented as based a real incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, usually in an identifiable place.
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