Motif
communal call-and-response storytelling frame
communal_call_and_response_storytelling_frame
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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West African Folk-Tales I. ANANSI, OR SPIDER, TALES / II. MISCELLANEOUS TALES / ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION; lines 281-356 confidence: high
“Comrades, listen to a story.” The crowd gathers, and the response is, “All right, let it come.”
The passage opens with a call to listen, an audience gathering, and the response that the story may begin.
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