Entertainment / Literature / Myth: While common English usage often equates 'myth' with 'falsehood,' scholars use the term slightly differently. A myth is a traditional tale of deep cultural significance to a people in terms of etiology, eschatology, ritual practice, or models of appropriate and inappropriate behavior. The myth often (but not always) deals with gods, supernatural beings, or ancestral heroes. The culture creating or retelling the myth may or may not believe that the myth refers to literal or factual events, but it values the mythic narrative regardless of its historical authenticity for its (conscious or unconscious) insights into the human condition. See also folklore, legend, mythography, mythos, and mythology.
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Myth Noun Synonyms: fable, lie, (tall) tale, fib, prevarication, fiction, untruth, falsehood, fabrication, cock-and-bull story, whopper
Myth Verb Synonyms: legend, fable, allegory, parable, tradition, saga, epic, (folk) tale, story, mythos, history
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Entertainment / Literature / Stichomythy: Dialogue consisting of one-line speeches designed for rapid delivery and snappy exchanges. Usually, the verbal parrying is accompanied by the rhetorical device of antithesis (see under schemes) and re MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Mythography: The commentary, writings, and interpretations added to myths. Medieval writers, such as the four anonymous scribes collectively called the 'Vatican Mythographers,' would take Greek and Roman myths and MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Epimythium: A summary of the moral of the fable appearing at the end of the main narrative. If it is found at the beginning of the narrative, it is called a promythium. Contrast with prologue and epilogue. MORE