2. Mini-discussion
Why do we tell stories?
What makes a story great?
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3. Stories are important
cognitive events, for they
encapsulate
information, knowledge,
context, and emotion.
--Don Norman, Things That Make Us Smart
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8. TheRENNS Model
Why did something happen? Why did someone do
Reasons something?
Examples How did it happen? How did someone do something?
Names Who was involved? Where did it happen?
Numbers When did it happen? How many were involved?
hearing sight smell touch taste
Senses (auditory) (visual) (olfactory) (tactile) (gustatory)
10. Sight
light and dark, shades and hues,
visible shape and appearance
timitalia
11. 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.
--Joyce Carol Oates, “Where are you Going, Where have you Been?”
12. Smell
Often used metaphorically
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13. ...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. White, “Once More to the Lake”
James Jordan
14. Taste
Gustatory, detecting flavor--related to smell
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15. ...the walking boots that taste
of Atlantic and Pacific salt...
--Robert Frost, “A Record Stride”
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17. ...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.
--Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell Tale Heart”
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18. Touch
Tactile experience and
emotion (tension, reactions)
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19. You grasp the bark by a rugged pleat,
And look up small from the forest's feet.
--Robert Frost, “On Going Unnoticed”
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