The description of 'actual words, written or spoken, used to tell a story' and images or pictures comes under the category of:

The actual words used to tell a story, together with images or pictures, fall under the category of discourse.

Discourse is the concrete substance of expression, the words and visuals through which a story is conveyed.

An event is what is narrated, the happening itself, not the words and images that tell it.

Law names a rule or norm and has no bearing on how a story is expressed.

Performance is the act of enacting or presenting, distinct from the verbal and pictorial material itself.

Narrative theory separates the told discourse from the events it recounts.