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  2. The StoryTeller (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Channel 4 (UK) HBO (US) (Greek Myths) Release. 31 January 1987. (1987-01-31) The StoryTeller is a live-action / puppet television series that originally aired in 1987 and which was created and produced by Jim Henson. [1] Reruns of The StoryTeller episodes were featured in some episodes of The Jim Henson Hour.

  3. The Storyteller (Picoult novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Storyteller is narrated by four characters: Sage, Leo, Josef, and Minka. Each character's narrative is told using a different font.Picoult often employs this alternating narrative style throughout her novels, including in, My Sister's Keeper, House Rules, Change of Heart, Songs of the Humpback Whale, Sing You Home, Handle with Care, and Lone Wolf.

  4. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    List of narrative techniques. A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several storytelling methods the creator of a story uses, [1] thus effectively relaying information to the audience or making the story more complete, complex, or engaging. Some scholars also call such a technique a narrative mode, though this ...

  5. 17 writers who despised adaptations of their work: ‘If you ...

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    To say Milos Forman’s 1975 adaptation of Kesey’s 1962 novel was well received would be an understatement; it was the first movie in 41 years to win the Oscar for best picture, director, lead ...

  6. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.). [1][2] In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of speech constitute the latter.

  7. English understatement - Wikipedia

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    The French actress Sarah Bernhardt was considered insufficiently understated in English terms. Photograph by Félix Nadar, c. 1864. This attitude of understatement was exemplified by a comment upon Sarah Bernhardt's violent depiction of Cleopatra in the 1891 play of that title: "How different, how very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen!"

  8. Nicholas Alexander Chavez Had 'Whole Body Shakes' on His ...

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    To say that Nicholas Alexander Chavez was nervous on his first day in Port Charles would be an understatement.. The actor, who has made waves as Lyle Menendez in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik ...

  9. Disclaimer (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    A famed documentary journalist discovers she is a prominent character in a novel that reveals a secret she has tried to keep hidden. The story is revealed in a non-linear fashion with the main actions occurring firstly when Nicholas is four years old (young Catherine’s secret affair with Jonathan in Italy and Jonathan’s subsequent death) and secondly twenty years later (the truth emerges ...