Fable
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true. To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, birds etc as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables. Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk. Fiction; untruth; falsehood.
Example sentence: I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
Fiction
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.Invention.
Example sentence: A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.