Uses setting, character, and plot to yield themes.
Stories are typically example stories. The world a storyteller creates by the selectivity of details is a picture of the world as the writer understands it, including its morality. Storytelling is an affective art, so it conveys its meaning by influencing a reader to feel positively or negatively toward characters and events.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. The Bible as Literature by Leland Ryken, Page 128-129)