storytelling

noun storytelling

• cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
• clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
• fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
• narration — something narrated; an account, story, or narrative.
• allegory — An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.