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story | epimyth |

As nouns the difference between story and epimyth

is that story is a sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence while epimyth is the moral of a story.

As a verb story

is to tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.

story

English

Alternative forms

* storie (obsolete), storey

Noun

(stories)
  • A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
  • * Ed. Rev.
    • Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story .
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
  • A lie.
  • (chiefly, US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.
  • * 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , chapter I:
    • The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.
  • (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
  • (obsolete) History.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
    • who is so unread or so uncatechis'd in story , that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as a hindrance, and preserving their doctrine unmixt for many ages, only by unwritt'n traditions.
  • A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

    • Usage notes

    * (soap opera) Popularized in the 1950s, when soap operas were often billed as "continuing stories", the term "story" to describe a soap opera fell into disuse by the 21st century and is now used chiefly among older people and in rural areas. Other English-speaking countries used the term at its zenith as a "loaned" word from the United States.

    Synonyms

    * (account) tome * (lie) See * (floor) floor, level * (soap opera) soap opera, serial * narrative

    Derived terms

    * Banbury story of a cock and a bull * bedtime story * chain story * cock-and-bull story * cover story * end of story * fish story * ghost story * horror story * just-so story * likely story * love story * my stories * shaggy-dog story * short short story * short story * sob story * storiation * story editor * storybook * storyline * story of my life * storyteller * storytelling * success story * tall story * to cut a long story short * war story

    Verb

  • To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
  • * Shakespeare
    • How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
  • * Bishop Wilkins
    • It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.

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    epimyth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The moral of a story.
  • * 1881, William Fleming and Henry Calderwood, A Vocabulary of the Philosophical Sciences , page 664,
    • The epimyth , coming after the fable, the moral.
  • * 1934, Daniele Vare, The Quarterly Review , page 448,
    • [I]t is the Odyssean episode with a Christian epimyth .
  • * 1994, Reb Moshe Walich, Book of Fables: The Yiddish Fable Collection of Reb Moshe Wallich, Frankfurt Am Main, 1697 , page 19,
    • In principle each fable in the collection is divided into two parts: the narrative itself, followed by an explicit moral or epimyth .
    ...
    In most of the fables the length of the epimyth ranges between six and twelve lines.
  • * 2000, Edward W. Wheatley, Mastering Aesop: medieval education, Chaucer and his followers , page 227,
    • [P]resumably the “man of education” did not reproduce the epimyth of the fable, which warns that one should always anticipate the result of one's actions.
  • * 2004, Jerold C. Frakes, Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750: With Introduction and Commentary , page 750,
    • [T]he first five fables follow a different sequence in the two texts, which causes a logical problem in the epimyth to fable no. 6 in Wallich's collection; and tale no. 35 from the earlier collection is omitted by Moses Wallich.

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