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  1. storytellingnoun

    The act and skills of presenting stories and tales.

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  1. Storytelling

    Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics or embellishment. Every culture has its own stories or narratives, which are shared as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation or instilling moral values. Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters and narrative point of view. The term "storytelling" can refer specifically to oral storytelling but also broadly to techniques used in other media to unfold or disclose the narrative of a story.

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  1. Storytelling

    Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, and images, often by improvisation or embellishment. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation, and to instill moral values. Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters, and narrative point of view.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of storytelling in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of storytelling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of storytelling in a Sentence

  1. Kate Bossert:

    (Post-apocalyptic storytelling) takes the unknown and makes it very physical and very visible, in ways that actually are not always true to life, narratives that pinpoint the thing we’re afraid of, there’s almost a comfort in that.

  2. Ben Robinson:

    I am looking for The Original Series, with a 21st century budget, if they can combine sophisticated stories with beautiful special effects and the 1960s' Right Stuff' energetic storytelling, then I'm going to be over the moon.

  3. Tom Cruise:

    It has to do with storytelling … It allows us to put cameras in places that you’re not normally able to do.

  4. Laura Poitras:

    We're seeing this expansion of what non-fiction can be in storytelling, i think they're more thrilling than a lot of fiction films.

  5. Ben Robinson:

    It's metaphorical storytelling that allows you a way of taking science and fantasy to look at your own society, he [ Roddenberry Sr. ] talked about race by having a Vulcan instead of a Black guy.

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