body, close, closing, conclusion, end, ending, introduction

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cock-and-bull story, fairytale, fairy story, nursery rhyme, recounting, relation, sob stuff, song and dance, tall tale, telling

entitled, folktale, folk tale, lamentable, lesser anteater, little red riding hood, nursery rhyme, robust, tamandu, tamandua, tamandua tetradactyla, verisimilar, yet

account, lie, prevarication, report

fib, narration, recital, taradiddle, tarradiddle, yarn