Retelling

Synonyms for "retelling" (47 found)

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chronological retellingcite evidencecompare perspectivesdramatic retellingdramatizeeyewitness retellingoral retellingparaphrasereenactreframeretell in own wordsscriptsequence eventssimplified retellingsummarize

Collocations

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historical retellingoral retellingretell a storyretell as playretell from perspectiveretell in sequenceretell key eventsretell with evidenceretelling activityretelling exercisestudent retellingwritten retelling

Inflections

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Sample sentences

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On that very night when the fern blooms — I’m just retelling what has been compiled in fairy tales by local people — the mermaids, wood and house goblins, werewolves, nixes, and different kinds of ghosts and sorcerers gathered together.

Source: tatoeba (1748830)

The new film is a needless retelling of what was already a cinematic classic.

Source: wiktionary

Like those of other saints, Mira Bai's life story lies within a number of retellings, each more detailed than the last, so that her biography now includes burnishings that probably would not pass any historian's test.

Source: wiktionary

Huntsman feints at being the Snow White retelling no one has ever seen before, but ultimately becomes the “been there, done that” of fairy-tale filmmaking.

Source: wiktionary

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