Narration
[nə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or [nə'reʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth.
(noun.) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; 'his narration was hesitant'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.
(n.) 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; story; history.
(n.) That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Recital, description, rehearsal, relation, account, statement.[2]. Story, history, narrative, tale, chronicle.
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Examples
- And narration may be either simple narration, or imitation, or a union of the two? Plato. The Republic.
- Since you have preserved my narration, said he, I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- My own strength is exhausted; and I must tell, in a few words, what remains of my hideous narration. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You are aware, I suppose, that all mythology and poetry is a narration of events, either past, present, or to come? Plato. The Republic.
- But little time was wasted in narration of our adventure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Will my readers ask how I could find solace from the narration of misery and woeful change? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A poetical description may have a more sensible effect on the fancy, than an historical narration. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Or, if the poet everywhere appears and never conceals himself, then again the imitation is dropped, and his poetry becomes simple narration. Plato. The Republic.
- When I had concluded my narration, I said. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- We may learn this, among other instances, from the order, which is always observed in historical narrations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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