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By Ginny Wiehardt, About.com

Definition: Story is the full sequence of events in a work of fiction as we imagine them to have taken place, in the order in which they would have occurred in life (as opposed to plot).
Examples: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" tells the story of an American fighting in the Spanish Revolution.

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