How can storytelling be used as a strategy for informing an audience?

What will be an ideal response?


- A story, or narrative, can be used to organize new information or perspective, get listeners to think about a subject, or create a positive or negative feeling.
- It can build interest in a topic that the audience is unfamiliar with.
- Stories can be included in the introduction as an attention-getting device.
- Stories can be used to help organize the speech.
- Stories might also be used to create awareness of a situation.
- A story should build upon itself and include anecdotes and moments of reflection.

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