Cases of word usage

1) a story or description in which characters symbolize ideas such as patients, Purity and Truth usually to teach a moral lesson (allegory)

2) a short, interesting story about a person or event (anecdote)

3) a story of a person's life written by herself or himself (autobiography)

4) a form of poetry for speaking or singing that tells a story (ballad)

5) (from French) the final solution, explanation, a result etc of a plot in a story or play (denouement)

6) (of) a long poem telling the story of the deeds of one or more great heroes, usually over a long period or time (epic)

7) an incident that is one continuous action (and, in a story etc, one of many used to create the plot) (episode)

8) a short story that teaches a moral, especially one with animals in it (fable)

9) the part of a story or drama (after the climax) when the leading character suffers (before the final catastrophe or resolution) (falling)

10) an old story handed down from the past, especially one of doubtful truth (legend)