but in both cases it does not violate the rules of reality. There are no flying houses or red horses in the real world. Realism is based on the principle of verisimilitude, meaning lifelikeness. At the other end of the literary continuum is fantasy. Fantasy is not composed entirely of unlifelike details, but to varying degrees it departs from what we find in the world around us. A story in which animals talk like humans and perform human actions is a fantasy story. The Narnia stories of C. S. Lewis