Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who tells or writes stories.
- noun One who relates anecdotes.
- noun Informal One who tells lies.
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- noun A person who relates
stories through onemedium or another to anaudience . - noun role-playing games A
game master , particularly in games focused on collaborative storytelling.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A sad story means, this storyteller is alive (p. 9).
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A sad story means, this storyteller is alive (p. 9).
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Acting, writing and game design share this trait in common -- the stories they each tell become more sincere when the storyteller is a conduit, not a puppet master.
Archive 2008-01-01 SVGL 2008
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I learned on the reservation that the ancient, sacred charge of the storyteller is to beguile the time.
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So I agree, staying true to your own inner storyteller is the best!
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What might surprise some people, beyond Obama's ability as a writer and storyteller, is that each of his characters becomes a distinct voice that he brings alive, not just in his writing but even more so in this audiobook.
Boing Boing 2008
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The storyteller is like a camera; Sam Spade never "thinks" anything.
What's your point? 2007
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The stories pose a threat if their parents and teachers are not reading the books too, and participating in the experience, talking about what the storyteller is doing.
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The storyteller is like a camera; Sam Spade never "thinks" anything.
What's your point? 2007
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I'm trying to write records the way Thomas Pynchon writes novels or (Federico) Fellini made movies: Tell a serious story using these absurdist tools like the unreliable narrator, where you know the storyteller is not telling the truth.
June 2006 2006
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