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Definition of Reteller
1. one who retells stories [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reteller
Literary usage of Reteller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Growing Readers: Units of Study in the Primary Classroom by Kathy Collins (2004)
"This is the easiest kind of retelling to do because it follows the story closely,
and if there is a hard part, the reteller can look back into the book for ..."
2. Dryden's Palamon and Arcite by John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Tenney Brewster (1897)
"V U. THE STORY OF PALAMON AND ARCITE It is with Dryden as a reteller of tales,
especially of Chaucer's " The Knightes Tale," that we have here to do. ..."
3. Dryden's Palamon and Arcite by John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Tenney Brewster (1897)
"THE STORY OF PALAMON' AND ARCITE It is with Dryden as a reteller of tales,
especially of Chaucer's " The Knightes Tale," that we have here to do. ..."
4. Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6by Lynne R. Dorfman, Rose Cappelli by Lynne R. Dorfman, Rose Cappelli (2007)
"A folktale that can easily be adapted for reader's theater. , reteller. 1981.
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain. New York: Dial Press. ..."
5. Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults: A Selected Listing by Ginny Moore Kruse, Kathleen T. Horning (1991)
"(Ages 5-9) Sanfield, Steve, reteller. THE ADVENTURES OF HIGH JOHN THE CONQUEROR.
... The artist was born in Yokohama and the reteller also spent some of her ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... as, like them, he is, in some respects, a reteller of tales. Unlike them,
however, an ethical and not chiefly an aesthetic motive is dominant in him. ..."
7. Parsifal: A Mystical Drama by Oliver Huckel, Richard Wagner (1903)
"The genius of Wagner as a musician has so far overshadowed all else, that his
genius as a poet and as an exquisite reteller of the old legends has not been ..."
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