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Example sentences for "story telling"

  • This resemblance is mentioned because it shows you that clear statement of events in their right order is as necessary in this sort of exposition as in story telling.

  • What is usually meant by "invention" in story telling is power to see the story which lies in the events of every day.

  • Story telling; what to tell and how to tell it.

  • In this elementary section of the school system the instruction in religion consists mainly in story telling.

  • Story telling is also a feature of the year's work.

  • Story telling in the beginnings of history instruction affords an immediate appeal both to the children's interest in personal activities and to their liking for that form of instruction.

  • If then the first presentation of a lesson must be given orally by the teacher, it follows that the teacher has to perfect himself in the art of story telling.

  • The art of teaching history is in great part the art of story telling.

  • Like all other arts, the art of story telling cannot be imparted by rule and particularly not within the small scope of this introduction.

  • But along with these advantages go certain limitations, too, in this form of story telling; limitations which warn the play not to encroach upon the domain of fiction, and which have much to do with making the form what it is.

  • Both forms of story telling strive--never so eagerly as to-day--for a truthful representation of life.

  • The play thus is the most democratic and popular form of story telling, and at the same time is capable of embodying, indeed has embodied, the greatest creative literature of various nations.

  • Some Great Stories and How to Tell Them, by Richard Wyche, and Story Telling, by Edna Lyman, will serve as good guides to what to tell, and how to tell it.

  • This library has published a pamphlet on Story telling to children from Norse mythology and the Nibehulgenlied.

  • The employment of the contrast or harmony of man and nature is one of the oldest devices of story telling, but also one of the most artistic and effective.

  • History repeats itself" in small affairs as well as in great, and the human mind has not changed materially since the first days of story telling.

  • This has peculiar charm for the tyro because of its supposed originality, but it is really as old as story telling itself.

  • It must not be forgotten that story writing is only a modern phase of the world-old custom of story telling, and that the printed page should appear as natural and easy to the eye as the voice would to the ear.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "story telling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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