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Read the following excerpt about basic narrative terms: Story vs. discourse
Any analysis of the structure of narrative texts and films must begin by differentiating between the various levels of communication within the text. Various terms are used to refer to these levels; some approaches are based on a primary opposition between fabula and sjuzhet or ‘story’ and ‘discourse’, a binary distinction that goes back to Russian Formalism and Structuralism. Whereas the term ‘story’ refers to the chronological sequence of narrated events, ‘discourse’ refers to the shaping of this material by the narrator. This distinction is encapsulated in the basic questions: (1) What is narrated? (2) How is a story communicated narratively (or cinematically), i. e. mediated through narrative?
This distinction between story and discourse takes account of the fact that the same story: