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  2. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (short story collection)

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    After the funeral, the family gives her no inheritance, leaving her financially unstable once more. However, one of Old Tang's sons recommends her for a job as a maid at the Mei-Mei Academy, a primary boarding school in the mountainous western suburb of Beijing. There, she develops a bond with Kang, a newly arrived, six-year-old student.

  3. Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    The most common contemporary understanding of theme is an idea or point that is central to a story, which can often be summed in a single word (for example, love, death, betrayal). Typical examples of themes of this type are conflict between the individual and society; coming of age; humans in conflict with technology; nostalgia ; and the ...

  4. TPR Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    Although TPR Storytelling is a growing movement among foreign language teachers, particularly in the United States, it has received little coverage in academia. [a] In the United States the method has gained support from some language teachers, and some school districts use it exclusively in their foreign language programs. It has also been ...

  5. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Berg Esenwein in 1909 published, "Writing the short-story; a practical handbook on the rise, structure, writing, and sale of the modern short-story." In it he outlines the following plot elements and ties it to a drawing, [ 58 ] following Whitcomb's prescriptions: Incident, emotion, crisis, suspense, climax, dénouement, conclusion.

  6. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    Storytelling is also used as a means by which to precipitate psychological and social change in the practice of transformative arts. [13] [14] [15] Some people also make a case for different narrative forms being classified as storytelling in the contemporary world. For example, digital storytelling, online and dice-and-paper-based role-playing ...

  7. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.

  8. School prayer in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Many school districts and states attempted to reestablish school-sponsored prayer in different forms since 1962. [25] Since the 1990s, controversy in the courts has tended to revolve around prayer at school-sponsored extracurricular activities. Examples can be seen in the cases of Lee v.

  9. Katha (storytelling format) - Wikipedia

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    Katha (or Kathya) is an Indian style of religious storytelling, performances of which are a ritual event in Hinduism. It often involves priest -narrators ( kathavachak or vyas ) who recite stories from Hindu religious texts , such as the Puranas , the Ramayana or Bhagavata Purana , followed by a commentary ( Pravachan ).