What is an anecdote? Can you please provide an example?

Question

What is an anecodote/example?

Answer 1

It is a story from life that is used to illustrate a point. A parable from the Bible could be called an anecdote.

Answer 2

an ancedote is just a little story related to the point you are trying to make.

If you are talking to someone about the importance of keeping their room clean, you might tell them a story about how you or someone was so messy they lost their most important possessions until long after the item was replaced costing them alot of money.

Answer 3

An anecdote is a short story, usually from your own life. It might be used as an illustration of a point, but it may just be a funny story that fits into a conversation.

My sons are very tall. When my oldest boy was getting taller and taller, people always asked him, "Do you play basketball?" He would answer, "Why? Do you play miniature golf?" He stopped saying that when he decided it was a smart aleck thing to say. To this day when little kids ask him how he got so tall he says, "I always ate all my vegetables."

Answer 4

It's a short story used at the beginning of a speech. it could be made up

Answer 5

a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.

Answer 6

It's just a mini-story that supports what you were talking about.

example: when i was your age, pluto was a planet. we spent a whole day in 4th day watching videos and discussing how it was the "cold" planet.

haha

Answer 7

an anecdote is a very short usually humorous story.
I was walking down the sidewalk and I saw a very short man throwing around a baseball with his son, and wondered what my daughter would say and so we get to the playground and i asked what she thought of the man with no legs and she said she thought he was standing in a hole throwing a ball to his son.