in the narrow sense of the word (story)telling is synonymous with diegesis (i.e. verbal narration). (Chatman, 1990, p. 111-112) See diegesis, human communication that springs from a fundamental desire in people to tell each other what happened through the most expressive and immediate means possible; in dramatic storytelling, the recreation of events and people are portrayed through present action visual and oral performance (Austin Community College, 2014).