retelling
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- noun
- /ˌriːˈtɛlɪŋ/
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- The author wrote a captivating retelling of the classic fairy tale that added new characters.
- story retelling
- retelling task
- retelling of a myth
But this is a love story or retelling of Troy War.
- But this is a love story or retelling of Troy War.
- I'm not saying that my retelling of it shows that he is responsible.
- Yeah, it's a very, like, convenient retelling of history for Zuckerberg to go.
- So similar to Joan, this is a fictionalized retelling of a historical person's life.
- So it's it's a retelling of the Iliad where Achilles is a trans woman.
- When I find and or think of other retellings that I've read, I will continue this saga.
- Stories change in the process of retelling, and there's no way to prevent that they do.
- What would my channel be without Beauty and the Beast retellings?
- Foundation was Isaac Asimov's science fiction retelling of Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
- And that could produce in One Direction, a retelling which has made Medea protect her children instead of kill her children.
- And Pullman says, well, the Dark Materials is of course a retelling of the Miltonic temptation and fall, but most of that happens after The Golden Compass ends.
- It is a grease retelling of a summer romance gone wrong.
- She's the queen of retelling, so she's done.
- So Luna Lovegood and Cersei in the Cersei retelling by Madeleine Miller.
- Well, mostly fantasy, and this was really popular retelling kind of Cyborg Cinderella.
- So I read Gilded, which is by Marissa Meyer, the queen of retelling fairy tales.
Examples
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A modern-day retelling of Black Beauty.
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Much of the speech is a retelling of a history with which all in Lincoln's audience were familiar.
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Yeah, well, everything gets longer in the retelling.
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To be honest, Mr. Wilson, this whole retelling has taken me back in my mind to a very hard place.
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Although this story was well known by now, his public retelling of it caused quite a stir.
Fiction book (1993) -
That's a very dramatic retelling of events.
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So similar to Joan, this is a fictionalized retelling of a historical person's life.
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La Akawan's tragic tale inspired countless retellings across the ancient world.
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A modern-day retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Jekyll and Hyde.
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Our excerpt from the poem mirrors the excerpt in this from John Gardner's retelling of the story.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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Telling a story or describing events
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3.8
An account of events told in detail
A spoken or written story that explains events
How Different
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Retelling comes from the prefix re- 'again' and the verb tell 'to say a story', so it literally means 'telling again'. That's why a retelling is a new or repeated version of a story.