Allegory: (n) a story that uses figurative language to comment on a political, religious, social, or other matters. Many of the elements in an allegory represent lessons to be learned.
Fable: (n) a story that gives human characteristics to non-human characters and teaches a moral lesson.
Fairy tale: (n) a story of adventures in which fantastic forces and beings (such as wizards, goblins, elves, etc.)
Quest story: (n) a story in which the main characters must make a journey in order to achieve an important goal.
Episodic: (adj) made up of a number of individual stories that don’t have to be told in the same order that you find them in the book.
Figure 1.
Parallels in Five Fantasy Stories
Figure 2.
Parallels in Five Novels involving Quartets of Main Characters
*Structurally, the main protagonist of Journey to the West was Tang San-jiang; but, from a literary perspective, the main protagonist was Sun Wu Kong.
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