afterstory

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English

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Etymology

From after- +‎ story.

Noun

afterstory (plural afterstories)

  1. A story told after the fact; an account of events which come after a story
    • 2008, Barry Keith Grant, American Cinema of the 1960s:
      Wilder's cynicism is most evident in his cop-out, boy-gets-girl ending, which seems quite capable of producing an afterstory identical to the film we have just seen.
    • 2010, Joshua Porter, Designing for the Social Web, eBook:
      The afterstory might be as telling as the uprising. Even though hundreds of thousands of people joined the protest group, only a small percentage of Facebook members ever changed their privacy settings!
    • 2014, Marie-Laure Ryan, Jan-Noël Thon, Storyworlds Across Media:
      The use of an afterstory is rarer, but it oc- curs when a first-person narrator looks at the past from the point of view of the present, stressing the distinction between his or her past and present self: [...]

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