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include unusual words, or words that have a strong phonological content,
with interesting rhythms or sound that are onomatopoeic.

c. Alliteration
Alliteration is the use of words that have the same initial consonants.

d. Contrast

Stories for children often contain strong contrasts between characters or
actions or setting.

e. Metaphor
Bettelheim (1976) suggests that our early experiences with fairly stories

map subconsciously on to our real-world experiences, and become a kind of

script for our lives.
f. Inter-textuality

This term used to describe making references within one text to aspects of
other texts that have become part of shared cultural knowledge.

g. Narrative / Dialogue

Within a story, we can distinguish two main uses of language: for narrative
and for dialogue.

E. Quality in Story

A good story is, at one level, simply one that listeners or readers enjoy.
However, stories that appeal more than others, and that remain favorites with

children and parents over many years, do demonstrate some common features that

can be identified as characterizing quality. Quality stories have characters and a plot
that engages children, often the art work is as important as the text in telling in the

story, and they create a strong feeling of satisfaction when the end is reached.
However, not all good stories will be automatically good for language learning, and

we now move to think about what is involved in choosing and using stories not just

for pleasure, but for (pleasurable) language learning.

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