Metastory
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Metastory is a noun meaning An overarching story having other stories embedded within it.
Meaning
An overarching story having other stories embedded within it.
More Meanings
- A story about stories themselves.
Example Sentences
Once analytic units have been identified, the researcher will often combine the narratives of individual participants into a metastory.
The Assassin's Creed franchise is framed within a present day metastory involving a major corporation that may or may not be run by Templars.
A game like chess, for example, may not really have a well-scripted narrative but its structure is certainly informed by a metastory of two armies (black and white, with varying significances) engaged in strategic battle.
Word Forms
- metastories
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include substory, metacontext, subnarrative, subplot, submystery, mesostructure.
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