Ask and Retelling

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Ask verb - To put a question or questions to.

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Retelling is an antonym for ask.

Nearby Words: asked, asking

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Ask is an antonym for retelling in narrate topic.

Nearby Word: retell

Pied Piper by Heather Dale is a retelling of The Pied Piper of Hamelin... in which the children ask the Pied Piper to take them away and come up with the whole plot.

Source: Fractured Fairy Tale
For instance, the part where they ask for gifts from their merchant father is treated not as a serious example of their greed (and they've learned to live with their change in social status in this retelling) but as sarcasm that the father takes at face value.

Source: Adaptational Heroism

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