Meaning of afterstory | Babel Free

Definitions

A story told after the fact; an account of events which come after a story

Examples

“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.”

“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!”

“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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