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narration
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
narration \nar*ra"tion\, n. [L. narratio: cf. F. narration.]
The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; a recital of certain events, usually in chronological order; rehearsal.
That which is related; the relation in words or writing of the particulars of any transaction or event, or of any series of transactions or events; a narrative; story; history.
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(Rhet.) That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject.
Syn: Account; recital; rehearsal; relation; description; explanation; detail; narrative; story; tale; history. See Account.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French narracion "account, statement, a relating, recounting, narrating, narrative tale," and directly from Latin narrationem (nominative narratio) "a relating, narrative," noun of action from past participle stem of narrare "to tell, relate, recount, explain," literally "to make acquainted with," from gnarus "knowing," from PIE suffixed zero-grade *gne-ro-, from root *gno- "to know" (see know).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of recounting or relate in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating. 2 That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative. 3 (context rhetoric English) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.
WordNet
n. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, story, tale]
the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant" [syn: recital, yarn]
(rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth
Wikipedia
Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration encompasses a set of techniques through which the creator of the story presents their story, including:
- Narrative point of view: the perspective (or type of personal or non-personal "lens") through which a story is communicated
- Narrative voice: the format (or type presentational form) through which a story is communicated
- Narrative time: the grammatical placement of the story's time-frame in the past, the present, or the future
A narrator is a personal character or a non-personal voice that the creator (author) of the story develops to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot. The narrator may be a voice devised by the author as an anonymous, non-personal, or stand-alone entity; as the author herself/himself as a character; or as some other fictional or non-fictional character appearing and participating within their own story. The narrator is considered participant if he/she is a character within the story, and non-participant if he/she is an implied character or an omniscient or semi-omniscient being or voice that merely relates the story to the audience without being involved in the actual events. Some stories have multiple narrators to illustrate the storylines of various characters at the same, similar, or different times, thus allowing a more complex, non-singular point of view.
Narration encompasses not only who tells the story, but also how the story is told (for example, by using stream of consciousness or unreliable narration). In traditional literary narratives (such as novels, short stories, and memoirs), narration is a required story element; in other types of (chiefly non-literary) narratives, such as plays, television shows, video games, and films, narration is merely optional.
Usage examples of "narration".
Pettibones, all agog to hear the conclusion of so strange a narration.
The author entering upon the narration, says, LANIATA VESTE, FOEDUM SPECACULUM DUCEBATUR, MULTIS INCREPANTIBUS, NULLO INLACRIMANTE: deformatitas exitus misericordiam abstulerat.
I pronounced the first sentences of the narration, before I forgot what I was saying, what I had to say, and in my endeavours to proceed, I fairly wandered from my subject and I lost myself entirely.
The first proof that Cap gave of his not entering so fully as those around him into the solemnity of the moment, was by commencing a narration of the events which had just led to the deaths of Muir and Arrowhead.
Alice finished her narration, Lydia took over, explaining what she and Ambry had learned during their visit to the Donnerjack Institute.
I confess I did not attend closely to young Will during his narration, so fascinated was I by the phizz of Mr.
I spare the reader a narration of the terrible struggles which nature, conscience, all scruples and prepossessions of education and of blood, held with this resolution, the unholiness of which I endeavoured to clothe with the name of justice to Isora.
Now, since its very beginnings, the novel has always tried to escape the unilinear, to open rifts in the continuous narration of a story.
Crummins, and began to suck down his upper lip and agitate his eyelids and stand uneasily, glimmering signs of the setting in of the tide of narration.
But by his unwearied narrations he impressed his image in gigantic features on our plastic continent.
The extent to which Smith retouched his narrations, as they grew in his imagination, in his many reproductions of them, has been referred to, and illustrated by previous quotations.
All her narrations are with ups and downs of her hands, her eyes, her chin, and her voice.
The narration of the captivity is consistent as it stands, and wholly inconsistent with the Pocahontas episode.
Radiotracks, where they only had bowls of apples and mini choc bars for you to eat free, was in the next street, she'd done the narration there for a documentary made by the Discovery Channel about blunderbusses.
I took the utmost delight in these scandalous narrations, and whenever I thought she had told the whole truth I gave her a few pieces of money.