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Myth Noun Synonyms
fable, lie, (tall) tale, fib, prevarication, fiction, untruth, falsehood, fabrication, cock-and-bull story, whopper
He told her some myth about his being a multimillionaire and she believed it.

Myth Verb Synonyms
legend, fable, allegory, parable, tradition, saga, epic, (folk) tale, story, mythos, history
The ancient myths have provided sources for much of modern literature.

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Stichomythy

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

Mythography

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

Epimythium

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

Solar Myth

Entertainment / Literature / Solar Myth: Alvin Boyd Kuhn and Max M????ller were philologists who attempted to explain the origin of a number of myths and religious practices by linking them to the animistic worship of various celestial pheno MORE

Mythos

Entertainment / Literature / Mythos: (1) Approaching the world through poetic narrative and traditional ritual rather than rational or logical thought. (2) The collected myths of a specific culture in a general sense rather than in refer MORE

Mythology

Entertainment / Literature / Mythology: A system of stories about the gods, often explicitly religious in nature, that possibly were once believed to be true by a specific cultural group, but may no longer be believed as literally true by t MORE