Anecdotes

An anecdote is "a story with a point", such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative or to characterize by delineating a specific quirk or trait.

evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony

proverbial phrase from antiquity linked to an anecdote

right|thumb|200px|The 7th Maqāma of Al-Hariri of Basra|Al-Hariri, illustration by [[Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti from the 1237 manuscript (BNF ms. arabe 5847).]]The maqāma (Arabic: مقامة [maˈqaːma], literally "assembly"; plural maqāmāt, مقامات [maqaːˈmaːt]) is an (originally) Arabic prosimetric literary genre of picaresque short stories originating in the tenth century C.E. The maqāmāt are anecdotes told by a fictitious narrator which typically follow the escapades of a roguish protagonist as the two repeatedly encounter each other in their travels. The genre is known for its literary and rhetor

fable by Aesop and short tale reported by Aristotle regarding the life of Thales the Milesian

thumb|A page from ' by An exemplum (Latin for "example", exempla', exempli gratia = "for example", abbr.: e.g.'') is a moral anecdote, brief or extended, real or fictitious, used to illustrate a point. The word is also used to express an action performed by another and used as an example or model.

intentionally-long joke ending in an anticlimax

short story by Franz Kafka