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Why do we tell stories? 
What makes a story great? 
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enca,sulate 
information, knowledge, 
context, and emotion. 
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cognitive events, for they
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something? 
E'$#()%& How did it happen? How did someone do something? 
N$#%& Who was involved? Where did it happen? 
N*#b%r& When did it happen? How many were involved? 
S%"&%& hearing 
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sight 
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smell 
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touch 
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light and dark, shades and hues, 
visible shape and appearance 
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Thomas Hawk 
The restaurant was shaped like a big bottle, though squatter than a 
real bottle, and on its cap was a revolving figure of a grinning 
boy holding a hamburger aloft. 
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...I remembered clearest of all...how the bedroom smelled of 
the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent 
entered through the screen. --E.B. W./-%, “O",% M!r% -! -.% L$1%” 
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Gustatory, detecting flavor--related to smell 
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...the walking boots that taste 
of Atlantic and Pacific salt... 
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volume 
word choice 
tone 
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...there came to my ears a low, 
dull, quick sound, such as a 
watch makes when enveloped 
in cotton.... It was the beating 
of the old man's heart. 
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emotion (tension, reactions) 
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You grasp the bark by a rugged pleat, 
And look up small from the forest's feet. 
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...you can feel through its form [that it's] inherently like 
being on a train that has a destination...and that 
you're going to find something..." --Ira Glass 
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Narrative writing