THE ART OF ORAL STORYTELLING

REAL LIFE SITUATION

• Hungry Wolf's Lucky Day
• The story is pieced together using a couple of Eastern European traditions
• It features an original happy ending where the wolf stumbles upon a parade of lemmings that mistake his open mouth for the sea.
• It is probably one of Tim and Leanne's funniest stories.

ORAL STORYTELLING

• It is impossible to determine when exactly oral storytelling began because of its nature.
• One of the common threads between almost all of the audible stories is the appearance of an archetype, which is pattern, situation, character or symbol that reoccurs within the human psyche.
• The storyteller is the key figure needed for the dispersion of stories.

LANGUAGE

• Language is generally where we begin when we try to explain a concept.
• It is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.
• Human language can be divided into two types: natural languages and constructed languages. The former are our ‘native’ languages, the ones we learn to speak from an early age, and which have evolved over a period of many centuries into their present form. The latter are languages that have not evolved over a long period of time.

IMAGINATION

• The action of forming new ideas, images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses.
• There are two main elements to imagination. The first is a way of developing knowledge without the help of our senses. The second is something that allows us extra scope in understanding concepts, ideas, or phenomena.

WORK CITED

• Dunn, Michael. TOK glossary.16th March 2014. theoryofknowledge.net. .
• Jennings, Tim. "WOLVES!" Listen to Wolf Stories. Web. 15 Oct. 2015. .
• Gentry, Angela. "Oral Tradition of Storytelling: Definition, History & Examples." Study.com. Web. 15 Oct. 2015. .