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From the Ted Talk by Zahra Al-Mahdi: The infinite alchemy of storytelling

Unscramble the Blue Letters


All of these stories can nralaluty contradict, even if they differ slightly. We as humans are not merely the shape of body that we occupy or the secipifc description of behavior. We're a multiplicity of stories, stories that often come in ritvepteie patterns that can be rewritten and rareed. Having been raised by screens that told me different seoirts about who I am and where I come from cnsuofed me in the best way possible. I saw that history is not as static as we thought, that stories can be told, retold, read and reread. A change of context, change of perspective in hindsight can assign different values to everything and everyone around us.

Open Cloze


All of these stories can _________ contradict, even if they differ slightly. We as humans are not merely the shape of body that we occupy or the ________ description of behavior. We're a multiplicity of stories, stories that often come in __________ patterns that can be rewritten and ______. Having been raised by screens that told me different _______ about who I am and where I come from ________ me in the best way possible. I saw that history is not as static as we thought, that stories can be told, retold, read and reread. A change of context, change of perspective in hindsight can assign different values to everything and everyone around us.

Solution


  1. naturally
  2. specific
  3. reread
  4. stories
  5. repetitive
  6. confused

Original Text


All of these stories can naturally contradict, even if they differ slightly. We as humans are not merely the shape of body that we occupy or the specific description of behavior. We're a multiplicity of stories, stories that often come in repetitive patterns that can be rewritten and reread. Having been raised by screens that told me different stories about who I am and where I come from confused me in the best way possible. I saw that history is not as static as we thought, that stories can be told, retold, read and reread. A change of context, change of perspective in hindsight can assign different values to everything and everyone around us.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
told stories 2
knew kuwait 2


Important Words


  1. assign
  2. behavior
  3. body
  4. change
  5. confused
  6. context
  7. contradict
  8. description
  9. differ
  10. hindsight
  11. history
  12. humans
  13. multiplicity
  14. naturally
  15. occupy
  16. patterns
  17. perspective
  18. raised
  19. read
  20. repetitive
  21. reread
  22. retold
  23. rewritten
  24. screens
  25. shape
  26. slightly
  27. specific
  28. static
  29. stories
  30. thought
  31. told
  32. values