storytelling skill
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- Use your creativity and practice your storytelling skills to come up with a different twist on an ordinary story.
- children's storytelling skills
Examples
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Keep a journal, take good photographs and video, and use your storytelling skills not to tell a tale of your personal adventure, but instead tell of how other people live and work around the world, with the aim of connecting people to their coffee and to each other.
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During the workshop, participants honed their storytelling skills by sharing personal experiences in a creative way.
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At this stage, the teacher must develop storytelling skills so that students with strange and bizarre interests are intrigued.
Academic text (1991) -
A blog becomes memorable through the blogger's storytelling skill.
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At present, I am engaged in organizing an international network of storytellers, and I give a residency every year where I help people develop storytelling skills.
Fiction book (1998) -
Joe Kubert will be remembered for his sinewy, passionate drawing and his consummate storytelling skills.
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Bellezza—I think Gaiman shows off his storytelling skills with this book.
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The NSS was designed to be sensitive to changes in the development of narrative skills across the early schooling years, thereby allowing teachers to use the NSS to monitor children's storytelling skills over time.
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With sharp storytelling skills, vocal gravitas, and incisive pauses, Paolini is able to capture an audience's attention for hours with his well-researched lectures and performances.
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A good storytelling skill can captivate an audience and make even the simplest tales enjoyable.
Synonyms
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The act of telling stories to entertain or teach people
A natural skill for making events and people sound interesting
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the ability to tell stories' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'storytelling' (the act of telling stories) plus 'skill' (ability acquired by practice). This straightforward noun+noun combination follows common cross-linguistic patterns and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Storytelling skill comes from the simple picture of one person speaking to a group while using voice and hand movements to bring a story to life. So the parts story and telling help us remember that the phrase means the 'ability to tell stories' in an interesting way.