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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