Tall tales:

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I went to a presentation by a story teller named Kathleen. She had good info on tall tales. Any inaccuracies are the fault of the note taker.

  • Go back to the third grade when everything was possible.
  • Tall tales are suppressed, compounds or stories that exaggerated.
  • Make your audience know that the story is supposed to be funny.
  • How details to a small and staff to the old. Tall tales. A top hat has been at the end of the familiar characters with cream on top to make it familiar.
  • Power words such as toxic.
  • Place
  • Friends of character.
  • Story creation: the top and bottom of character
  • Tall tales influenced the colonization of the United States. The Pioneer would exaggerate with the places of the country to motivate people to move there
  • In the 1800s. They had called to postcards.
  • Seeing is believing. That would display such pictures as it had Is being carried by a plane
  • Writing the letter is a good way to start a story where you have to explain things to the reader that are not there. Write letters to people who annoy you
  • Backstory out is why something happened Mississippi God it’s curves. Another example is that chickens could swim, so they were changed to have skin between the toes in MS McCain.
  • Tell tall tales as real events.
  • To tell to have a beginning, middle and end. Start: introduce the character something should be oversized or special qualities. Show them as they are in a normal day, the problem is to be oversized then introduced the problem.
  • Middle: plot thickens have a least three attempts to solve the problem. This is where you can exaggerate the events make it top-heavy getting more embellished as you go. Make sure the easy-to-follow. Patrons the details.
  • And: resolution, show growth between the beginning to the end, some lessons learned. You may have a gotcha.
  • With the cherry on top to bring the story back to normal.
  • Tell it as if you believe it.
  • Picture book where the wild things are is a wonderful example of a tall tale.
  • The judges of the largest compensation like understated tall tales. Adults like cognitive conceit. and see. I don’t like them have

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