What is the literal meaning of the word Anecdote?
Anecdote literally means "unpublished" and is a folklore genre, a short oral story about a fictional or true event of topical domestic or socio-political content, with humorous or satirical coloring and an unexpected witty ending. This can be a play of words, different meanings of words, modern associations that require additional knowledge: social, literary, historical, geographical, etc.
In most cases, the authors of anecdotes are unknown. But an anecdote is best known as a short, often moralizing story about an unusual, often real event, an incident from the life of a historical person, not necessarily with the task of ridiculing it.
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Rene Rojas
Wrong answer. The correct answer is "short".
Steve Heady
These questions need to be worded properly. A word origin is not the same as a meaning or definition. In the English language the literal meaning is a short, funny story. Unpublished is the literal meaning in another language. Who lets these questions through like this?
Don Storjord
Short or funny would be more applicable
Theresa Lisiecki
"a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person" is the definition, so two of the three answer were correct.
jaime alzate
AN ANECDOTE MAY BE YET PUBLISHED. I DISAGREE WITH THE OFFICIAL ANSWER.
Diana Cook Smith
Rene Rojas, Short is what I said. I thought it was a short story.
Alice Wilson
The Greek meaning is unpublished....
Jaclyn Rae Glicken
I went by it sounding like anti as in Not, such an unpublished. It was a shot in the dark, that was the correctly stated answer.
Lynette Boone
Wrong answer
Avenel Grace
An anecdote can be published at the end of a story the question is not a good one. It means different things in different places. We are not all Americans you know,, there are some other people on this planet just in case you hadn't noticed!
Emalie Monarrez Ortega
i voted for "short" and literal does not figure in to it. Needed better screening.
Vladimir Orozco
INteresting and make sense.
Don Racette
Diana Cook Smith...Who wears short shorts...I wear short shorts :)
vasily tchaikovsky
short or funny the correct A. anyway I like this Q Thanks
debbielk
I need to agree with Rene Rojas, the correct answer is "short." The question could have been phrased differently in order to get "Something unpublished." I simply came across short unanimously.
Ye Tejero Cuevas
I BELIEVE IN DE QUIZ ARE CONFUSED THE WORD ANECDOTE WITH INEDIT
d p catalano
What is going on with Quizz club. Whoever is in charge should be renamed. This is an example of poorly worded and choices that are right. 😱
Sue Wilson
This is wrong, it is short, but could be funny too,
Alan Williamson
Wrong answer. Short is the correct answer. No definition I have read says that an anecdote is unpublished ! !
Katerine Sumwalt
Is a Greek word combined by two Greek words put together, "an" means "is not" and "ecdoto" means "published". Is a dual meaning word, it also means something funny. It defines itself in the sentence that you are using.
Jeffrey Warhurst
Having looked at a dictionary after I had answered the question,as I thought it was incorrect,I found that there were 3 different meanings.At least 3 of the answers are correct
Maria De La O
Right answer!