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State at least 5 factors/ cues/ oral devices that make a story interesting/ thrilling/ captivating.

      

State at least 5 factors/ cues/ oral devices that make a story interesting/ thrilling/ captivating.

  

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Martin
-Use of facial expressions; smiling, frowning, nodding, blinking, eye contact etc

-Use of gestures; waving, pointing, clapping, swinging hands, greeting, etc

-Use of mimicry; imitation – Imitating the sounds typical to different characters in order to play their role in the performance.

-Vary tone/ tonal variation; raising and lowering voice/pitch to express different moods/ atmosphere (lower voice for love and expressive situations; and high for anger and surprising/exciting/happy and joyous situations).

Voice projection - Say a word or line in a sharp, sudden and loud voice in order to reach the audience audibly and clearly as possible

-Dramatization/ dramatic aspects – Enacting/ acting out scenes as if they are real ones. Performing scenes to make them appear real, memorable and exciting. For instance, jumping.

-Singing – Chanting/ singing in the course of narration in order to break the monotony of narration, enrich/ supplement the narration with certain information that would have otherwise been absent, allow audience participation in narration, capture the attention of the audience, allow smooth transition from one scene to another, help build audience-narrator rapport, sets the mood of the narrative and comic relief



marto answered the question on April 23, 2019 at 06:40


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