1
[ noun ] an account describing incidents or events

Synonyms

story tale recital yarn narration

Examples

"a farfetched narrative" "after dinner he told the children stories of his adventures"

Used in print

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

Moreover , the most artistically successful of the nonfiction films have invariably borrowed the narrative form from the fiction feature .

Immediately , the film improved and it improved because in narrative it found a content based on time to complement its own unbreakable connection with time .

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative , which is , at its simplest , the story of an action with , usually , a beginning , a middle , and an end - elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence .

In narrative , time is essential , as it is in film .

The chase in itself is a narrative ; it presumes both speed and urgency and it demands cutting - both from pursued to pursuer and from stage to stage of the journey of both .

Related terms

report message fairytale tall_tale sob_story relation nursery_rhyme tearjerker folktale canterbury_tales introduction body conclusion tell tell tell yarn

2
[ adjective ] consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

Examples

"narrative poetry"

Used in print

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

Almost everything about the movies that is peculiarly of the movies derives from a tension created and maintained between narrative time and film time .

Related terms

communicative

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Rhymes with

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Phonetic and Homophones

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