backstory
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈbækˌstɔri/
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historia de fondo
- Every character benefits from having a well-developed backstory to enhance their motivations.
- backstory for a character
- give a backstory
- provide a backstory
It might help to write down backstories for your characters.
- It might help to write down backstories for your characters.
- They also both have really tragic backstories, like the parents.
- Many narcissistic folks don't have easy backstories.
- So first, because I know a lot of you have really cool, interesting backstories and have emerging entrepreneurial ventures.
- That plays on the empathy of the folks around them, who can often feel silenced by those backstories.
- And often we tell our heroes backstories and origin stories, but we don't tell the villains backstories or origin stories.
- I could fill a villa in Love Island with middle-aged people with the best backstories you have ever heard and you're like, they've lived a life.
- And we would start playing and I spent, I talked the whole game and I would pretend to be different people who had backstories.
- Then of course, looping back there are our backstories.
Examples
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But he missed the most important part of my backstory!
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Okay, here's the backstory, so pay attention.
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-Like you said before, I had to, like, come up with a backstory and everything, you know.
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Would you mind telling me a little about your backstory in life and with women?
Blog text (4) -
What can you tell me about her backstory?
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Well, we're gonna need some backstory.
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Learn the backstory in order to take your reader behind the scenes.
Academic text (2010) -
The Clone Wars worked only because we already knew the backstory after seeing Star Wars II.
Blog text (8) -
But that backstory also accounts in part for her rage when her "perfect" son is senselessly murdered.
Academic text (2011) -
It's a complicated backstory.
Synonyms
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1.0
An account of events told to entertain or inform
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1.0
An account of past events about a person or place
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3.4
The education, work, and life experience that shape a person's skills
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3.9
A story that describes connected events
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2.1
An account of the events and experiences of a person's life
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3.0
A complete, detailed report of events and facts
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3.3
The reason and past events that explain why something happened
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Backstory is a modern compound of back ('behind') and story ('tale'), so it literally means the 'story behind' a character or situation. So a backstory is the background that helps explain why a person acts the way they do.