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# storyteller

«storyteller» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who tells stories, often out loud to an audience** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a storyteller, storytellers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A storyteller is a person who tells stories, often out loud to an audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storyteller/#m1)

2) A storyteller can also be a writer or someone who is very good at telling stories in an interesting way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storyteller/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In reading and literacy lessons, the storyteller or narrator is the one who tells the story; pupils become storytellers when they retell or write stories. Long ago, storytellers passed on legends and history by speaking. Many cultures, including Aboriginal and Maori peoples, have strong storytelling traditions.

### examples

- The storyteller held the children spellbound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storyteller/#x1)
- Grandpa is a wonderful storyteller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storyteller/#x2)
- A storyteller visited our library this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storyteller/#x3)
- Long ago, storytellers passed on stories by heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storyteller/#x4)
- Be a good storyteller: use expression and pauses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storyteller/#x5)
- The storyteller used puppets to act out the tale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storyteller/#x6)
- Who is the storyteller in this book? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storyteller/#x7)
- [208] "Some storytellers," says Afanasief, "substitute the word snake (zmei) in the Skazka for that of witch (vyed'ma)." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storyteller/#x8)

### note

Countable noun, one word: «a storyteller, storytellers». The activity is «storytelling». In books, the person telling the story is often called the «narrator», who may be a character, not the author.

### In the corpora

- [Animal myths travel the same way, from storytellers to cartoon makers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «storyteller» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/storyteller/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.