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narration
  1. The act of recounting or relating 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. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The two featurettes are actually just compilations of behind-the-scenes footage, with no narration or interviews included.”
      “Lauren relates her story in a simple time sequence and gives telling details that make the narration gripping.”
      “This opening narration ends with a visual of a reel-to-reel tape recorder playing on a window sill to an empty room.”
narrator
  1. One who narrates or tells stories.
  2. (narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.
  3. (film and television) The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Sometimes she's a participant in the story, other times she serves as a narrator of the event.”
      “A motto theme for William Penn is heard and the narrator intones Penn's prayer for Philadelphia.”
      “The narrator, speaking to an unknown interlocutor in an unknown location, commences.”
narrative
  1. The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
  2. That which is narrated.
  3. A representation of an event or story.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The autobiography provides a compelling narrative of the musician's life.”
      “You appear to be misrepresenting the facts to fit your narrative what transpired.”
narrativity
  1. The presentation (and subsequent interpretation) of a dramatic narrative
narreme
  1. A basic unit of narrative structure.
narrateme
  1. A basic unit of a story or narrative.
narratorship
  1. The role or status of a narrator.
narrativization
  1. The process or result of narrativizing.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In this way, Beatrice serves as Achebe's device to look back at his own earlier novels, as well as the narrativization of Igbo mythology undertaken in those earlier novels.”
narratability
  1. The condition of being narratable.
narratrix
narratress
  1. (rare) A female narrator.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This is one half of the plot of the book. The other half relates to the narratress.”
narratology
  1. the study of narrative structure
  2. Examples:
    1. “I circled my original idea pondering the elasticity of fiction and the nature of narratology.”
      “Much structural analysis, much narratology, ignores or downplays the role of time in narrative in the name of synchronicity.”
      “In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory.”
narratologist
  1. One who studies narratology.
narratee
  1. someone to whom a story is narrated
narrater
narrativizations
  1. plural of narrativization
narratologists
  1. plural of narratologist
narratologies
  1. plural of narratology
narratresses
narratemes
  1. plural of narrateme
narrations
  1. plural of narration
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Of course, the fact that the press borked Gore for twenty straight months will seldom be mentioned in the press corps' narrations.”
      “The Sufis substantiate their view from the above mentioned Hadith of Sayyidna Ali, Radi-Allahu anhu, and other narrations.”
      “My informants, many of whom I have known for more than a decade, digressed through contradictory narrations.”
narratives
  1. plural of narrative
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Thus, accidents or chance events function as sites around which narratives of individual difference can collocate.”
      “He looks at the Gospel's theology, language, and relationship of narratives to Jesus' discourses and explores the unique Johannine Passion story.”
      “Their narratives were accounts of how a democratic state had been achieved.”
narratrices
narratees
  1. plural of narratee
narraters
narrators
  1. plural of narrator
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Many festivals have had performers, narrators, door prizes and a bingo game made to fit the theme.”
      “The problem is that some Heldentenors are fine at projecting roles such as Tristan, but aren't natural narrators.”
      “The male narrators offer the woman's body as the place where they are momentarily free from the pressures of dissembling a myth of themselves.”
narremes
  1. plural of narreme
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