Subplot and Fable

noun

• A deliberately false or improbable account.
  • synonyms: fabrication, fiction
• A short moral story (often with animal characters.
  • synonyms: parable, allegory, apologue
• A story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.
  • synonyms: legend

• (v.t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
• (n.) Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
• (n.) The plot, story or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.
• (n.) A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue.
• (n.) Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
• (v.i.) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.