The analogy is the attainment of a thing not yet imagined, though taped from the surry of experience. The metaphor offering that magic "click" the acid spark that lights up the eyes. 

As we proceed, there are things to remember. A story is a narrative, but a narrative is not a story. A narrative is

A chronicle of change...

Chronicle being the operative word, its prefix from the Greek, Kronos--Time. Events over time (as if there's anything else. The index of a witness that entails jugement for what is narraitable. The analogy here is safe:

A song is to music what a story is to narrative.

Hence, story is a mere genre of narrative. Narrative is the raw material, elemental and formless phenomena in a certain wavelength.

Time

Space

Entity

Event

Witness

One might ask about the tree falling in the woods. Only constraints of a particular style diminish these red hot formless objects into a story. Constraints are freedom. This isn't Orwellian Newspeak, but the same limitations that make light (darkness) and fashion our own character out of flesh. 

A story has its own definitive elements, mostly familiar to the novice.

Plot > event+time

Character> entity

Setting> space

Narrator> witness

We can also add additional material that furthers the nature of the type of narrative unfolding.

Point of View

Voice and Tone

Tension

And then further things by getting into a finer grain.

Narrative Time (scene, summary, etc.)

Tension

Narrative Drive

We can dial in further, if you'd like, but for the time being let's contemplate these materials and what they give us, but also why.