What's the difference between fictionalize and retell?
Fictionalize
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Retell
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(v. t.) To tell again.
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(1) The book begins with Holden directly addressing you, the reader, and he begins to retell the events over a three day period from last December.
(2) He's broken limbs, nearly lost fingers and contracted a potentially deadly bone-marrow infection, as well as performing a string of excellent comedy shows retelling his exploits.
(3) The children generated three original stories, retold two adventure stories, and then answered two sets of comprehension questions after each retelling.
(4) Since the day of the shooting, I have been told the story several dozen times, and it seems that with each retelling the details are subtly different: they grow a little more dramatic perhaps, or a touch more tragic.
(5) His first project is to write a stage play, "a modern retelling of the Theseus legend.
(6) The creative risk – such as it is – within the new series centres on the retelling of real events as they would have been covered by this idealistic newsroom.
(7) But not this year, which has seen box-office success for studio-backed movies such as Son of God ($67m since its debut in late February), Darren Aronofsky’s Noah ($359m), God’s Not Dead ($60m), Heaven is for Real ($91m), and, soon Ridley Scott’s retelling of the story of Moses, Exodus.
(8) Here's a selection of some of the one liners he's retelling: There is a reason I’ve got no plans to run.
(9) One rebuke to purveyors of a failing conventional wisdom, which may have been refined in the retelling , was "When the facts change, I change my mind.
(10) He accomplishes this positive self through narrative retelling of key events in his biography, healing discontinuities by the way he structures his account in interaction with the listener.
(11) It’s just something you’d rather not do.” The conference-goers seem to find comfort in telling and retelling the story of sushi – a strange, foreign dish that showcased raw fish and yet became not just acceptable but trendy in the west.
(12) Interviews and archive footage impressively retell the story of Tilikum’s capture: a horrifying chase involving explosives, boats and helicopters until the young killer whale calves were herded into a cove.
(13) Stuntdriver George Cottle went through four Batmobiles during filming of Batman Begins, a retelling of Bruce Wayne's pre-cape capers that sees him do battle with a scarecrow on a fire-breathing horse hell-bent on, as ever, poisoning Gotham's water supply.
(14) Photograph: Dan Glass Glass adds that other grandchildren of survivors have experienced clinical depression, anxiety, addiction and eating disorders, which they blame on the impact of their families constantly retelling stories of the horrific events their relatives endured.
(15) Stories were elicited under two conditions--story retelling and story generation--from a group of 23 normal young adults and 4 closed head-injured (CHI) adults who had reached a high level of language recovery.
(16) In all three retellings, both groups of subjects retold information in the same order that it occurred in the stories.
(17) How did Batty immerse herself in such company, wheeled out at business functions to retell the story of her son’s murder in February 2014?
(18) Both aphasic and non-brain-damaged subjects increased the amount of information retold across three retellings, although only the increases from Retelling 1 to Retelling 2 were statistically significant.
(19) However, there were significant differences between students with LD and normally achieving students in the amount as well as the type of information included in the retellings and written stories.
(20) I watched other FamAnon members retell the pain of walking away from their children, knowing it was the only way, the only hope.