Blog 3A

The rhetorical tools mutability or plasticity, piecemeal, windows of opportunity, and open-ended closure referred to in the Zambereno article are important to narratives as they give multiple options to your writing style.

Mutability or plasticity is the ability to shift or change the narrative for another purpose or audience.  For example, if you want to adapt a story to a younger audience, you can change the vocabulary and content to better fit the age group intended without changing the story.  Another example would be to change the direction of the intended story to offer a different conclusion.  Piecemeal is taking different sources of material and combining them into the narrative. This allows you to take many different ideas and combine them in various ways to create your own version of a story. Windows of opportunity are historical holes in the story that can be filled in with perspective or other narratives. Open-ended closure is basically drawing attention to something missing from the narrative to allow for future stories or discussion, or in other words, to be continued...