[n] a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events [n] a short moral story (often with animal characters) [n] a deliberately false or improbable account
allegory, apologue, fabrication, fiction, legend, parable
action, adventure story, allegory, anagnorisis, angle, apologue, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, background, bedtime story, canard, catastrophe, characterization, color, complication, concoction, continuity, contrivance, denouement, de