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Part One: Description, Narration, and Reflection 148 know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk. Koening, John. “Sonder.” The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, 22 July 2012, http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/sonder. 29 Gustav Freytag is credited with this particular model, often referred to as “Freytag’s pyramid.” Freytag studied the works of Shakespeare and a collection of Greek tragic plays to develop this model in Die Technik des Dramas (1863). 30 For the sake of brevity, I have not included here a discussion of focalization , an important phenomenon to consider when studying point-of-view more in-depth. 31 Sometimes tone and mood align, and you might describe them using similar adjectives—a joyous tone might create joy for the reader. However, they sometimes don’t align, depending largely on the rhetorical situation and the author’s approach to that situation. For instance, a story’s tone might be bitter, but the reader might find the narrator’s bitterness funny, off- putting, or irritating. Often, tone and mood are in opposition to create irony: Jonathan Swift’s matter-of-fact tone in “A Modest Proposal” is satirical, producing a range of emotions for the audience, from revulsion to hilarity. 32 Excerpt by an anonymous student author, 2016. Reproduced with permission from the student author. 33 Thanks to Alex Dannemiller for his contributions to this subsection. 3 4 Tips on podcasting and audio engineering [transom.org] Interactive web platform hosting [H5P.org] Audio editing and engineering: NCH WavePad Audio Editing Software Whiteboard video creation (paid, free trial) : Video scribe Infographic maker : Piktochart Comic and graphic narrative software (free, paid upgrades): Pixton 35 Vazquez, Robyn. Interview with Shane Abrams. 2 July 2017, Deep End Theater, Portland, OR. 36 This activity is a modified version of one by Lily Harris. 37 Thanks to Alex Dannemiller for his contributions to this subsection. 38 Essay by Joey Butler, Portland Community College, 2016. Reproduced with permission from the student author. 39 Essay by an anonymous student author, 2016. Reproduced with permission from the student author. 40 Essay by an anonymous student author, 2014. Reproduced with permission from the student author. 41 To consider this phenomenon further, check ou t The Importance of Empathy (Youtube video) 42 This is a phrase I picked up from Kelly Gallagher. Gallagher, Kelly. Write Like This , Stenhouse, 2011. 43 Faces. “Ooh La La.” Ooh La La , 1973. 44 This activity is a modified version of one by Susan Kirtley. 45 Admittedly, this story is a not the kind of narrative you will write if your teacher has assigned a descriptive personal narrative: it is fictional and in third person. For the purposes of studying reflection as a rhetorical gesture, though, “Little Red Riding Hood” does some of the same