Definition of narrative in English:

narrative

noun ˈnarətɪvˈnɛrədɪv

1A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
a gripping narrative
Example sentencesExamples
- A realist third-person narrative, its critical irony comes through in the novel's ambiguous, multivalent ending.
- Such grand narratives frequently obscure the sequence of events they are struggling to explain.
- Mixing legend and history, he provides a coherent narrative based upon traditional materials.
- So in other words, they're using the biblical gospel narratives in a symbolic way in these novels.
- Consequently, readers seeking a more traditional chronological narrative of political events might need to look elsewhere.
- However, the author's first-person narrative evaporates when the action happens over the horizon.
- An event occurs, and it slowly becomes encrusted with narratives about what happened.
- They opt instead for narratives that tell half of the story and narratives that tell an untrue story.
- Their narratives were accounts of how a democratic state had been achieved.
- Many narratives have also been written in more conventional language and forms by Aboriginal authors.
- We are even more dependent on Rose's selectivity with the pool of first-person narratives.
- A five-minute coda tries to wrap up, while leaving nearly all the narrative threads hanging.
- There are, then, three narrative strands.
- Part of this admirably straightforward narrative was written, but not published, as a study for the commission.
- The film's narrative tries to uncover just exactly what his role was.
- They also provide a compelling personal narrative of his life.
- His prose narratives, too, were bestsellers till the 18th century.
- Similarly, he acknowledges that the slave narratives were always survivors' stories.
- These were Maori narratives written and read from the position of living in a European country.
- He contends that the mass media help to spread the narratives of history and everyday life which bind people together as a nation.
Synonyms
account, story, tale, chronicle, history, description, record, portrayal, sketch, portrait, statement, report, rehearsal, recital, rendering
1. 1.1mass noun The narrated part of a literary work, as distinct from dialogue.
  the dialogue and the narrative suffer from awkward syntax
  Example sentencesExamples
  The story CDs, which are on sale over the internet for £9.99, are made up of narrative, rhymes and songs.
  I was brought in to, essentially, write some voice-over dialogue and narrative for it, to buttress the story.
  The book is a compilation of Biblical narrative, rabbinic legends, prayers, homilies and songs.
  Though carefully documented, the book primarily weaves strong narratives filled with lively anecdotes.
  These struggles were only the beginning, as similar feelings about dialogue and narrative nagged the back of my mind.
  These various narratives are weaved in with combat footage and historical analysis.
  It spools out and out of my mouth, narrative, dialogue and commentary.
  Altogether there are thirty-three narratives and twenty-two opinion statements.
  She's very good at dialogue, and the high ratio of talk to narrative is one reason why her stuff is so readable.
  So, the film is all about the triumph of spectacle over narrative, but sometimes you need just a little bit of narrative to make things worth while.
  It is into this chronological narrative that he interlards verbatim dialogue, transcriptions and notations of the songs.
2. 1.2mass noun The practice or art of telling stories.
  traditions of oral narrative
  Example sentencesExamples
  She says none of the five bite-sized operas is trying to break from traditional narrative.
  But it is the interest in fictional narrative that comes through most strongly.
  The plot of history may not always be as credible as fictional narrative, but it can be just as fascinating.
  Nonfiction narrative is to my mind a higher art because the writer has far more demands put on them by the known facts.
  The short story cycle looks back to oral traditions of narrative while embodying signs of modernity.
  In the realm of mythic narrative, the same stories keep getting reincarnated.
  It didn't just object to certain kinds of story, but to narrative in general as a promoter of illusion.
  It does this by creating an atmosphere that is closer to poetry than to traditional prose narrative.
  When I refer to narrative, I'm talking about story telling and delivery of a story.
  They have yet to find a way of really telling a good story rather than just using narrative as a vehicle to get them from one visual gag to another.
  That being said, I'm all for a good story, but narrative and story are two different things.
  Perhaps my own tendency to sit with narrative rather than poetry leads me in this direction.
  You can define narrative to make it the story or to make it the whole, and you can emphasise different aspects.
  These pieces depend on narrative for their lives, animated by the stories we tell about them.
  He does not dress them up with narrative; there is no story, just a jangle of exposed nerve endings.
  His chief area of expertise, and the subject he taught when the School became a teaching department, was oral narrative.
  Just as every story needs a preface, a truly erudite narrative simply cannot do without an introduction.
  It has lots of different strands of narrative which come together in a complete story.
  I have lately been thinking about the lasting effects of modernism and science on religious narrative.
  Here is a man who understands the cinematic image, not just as vacuous glamour but as narrative and poetry.
3. 1.3 A representation of a particular situation or process in such a way as to reflect or conform to an overarching set of aims or values.
  the coalition's carefully constructed narrative about its sensitivity to recession victims
  Example sentencesExamples
  Especially in this country, we have allowed the development of a narrative in the media which privileges suspicion of domestic politicians over the understanding of global movements.
  We have seen this before - the so-called Liberal media framing the narrative to fit Republicans.
  Can it really be right to have children when they'll grow up in a world dominated by narratives of social and environmental catastrophe?
  The Louisiana chief executive is impossible to dismiss out of hand because he fits into several narratives that make him appealing to conservatives and to independent voters.
  Official American history diminishes or erases completely these bodies in its ideal narratives of progress.
  Constructing an expansive environmental narrative enabled activists to find new ways to seek, and sometimes achieve, long-standing political goals.
  The point is that with new governments, what we've come to regard as their narrative generally tends to become evident after the event.
  American triumph at the end of World War II could reaffirm the master narrative of American conquest.
  American constitutional history was dominated by a whiggish narrative in which progressive forces consistently supportive of civil rights and civil liberties triumphed over the dark forces of reaction.
  He was a politician who fatally lacked a grasp of the importance of having a narrative to inspire supporters and enthuse the electorate.
  The party hopes the raft of policy announcements this week will show that their leader is developing a coherent and imaginative "narrative" that will define his general election campaign.
  The "narrative" that the President was under-achieving "would largely go away", he thought, particularly when health care reform passed.
  This is a simple story that fits nicely into the overall narrative the President has been using already.
  The bigger picture, however, is of a prime minister and a government that want to be more self-confident but are frustrated at the failure of their 'narrative' to find a more receptive audience.
  Historians and politicians skillfully crafted the narrative of an active middle class who (in retrospect) had heroically waged the revolutionary struggle.
  Labour needs to find a new narrative. And the Conservatives must stick to their story.
  Journalists may love to break news, but they hate to contradict the narratives that crystallize around particular politicians or policies.
  The history of the country as a whole "does not fit easily into a standard narrative of democracy" - assuming that there is anything like a "standard narrative of democracy".
  Such expectations may have been unrealistic, but it was part of an overall narrative about the Liberal Democrat path to government which depended not only on Liberal Democrat progress, but also Conservative decline.
  It will also depend on the way we conceptualize him and where he fits into our own global narrative.

adjective ˈnarətɪvˈnɛrədɪv

In the form of or concerned with narration.
a narrative poem
narrative technique
Example sentencesExamples
- The real narrative subtext here is the restoration of family and the recuperation of a nation and its history.
- First, it is too general to be of any use in distinguishing one narrative genre from another.
- The first 11 chapters of Genesis are generally taken as narrative history by young earth creationists.
- A review, like a novel, has a narrative arc to it.
- And I am very happy that you like my characterization, and narrative style.
- She is so incidental in her one narrative appearance that she is scarcely noticed.
- As resistant as this is to the imposition of narrative coherence, a feminist ethos is unmistakable.
- So it would be okay to inject more narrative drive into the story.
- But somehow we've lost the narrative thread that ties it all together.
- Perhaps more surprising than its efficiency as propaganda is the film's excellence as narrative cinema.
- Human curiosity seems the obvious answer, and eavesdropping creates that narrative lack which provokes curiosity.
- A few more narrative tracks would have maybe filled in this information nicely.
- I would have probably continued reading this for the narrative techniques.
- But that would have been owed to his two great narrative poems, rather than his plays.
- You can view the whole thing as performance art with hints of narrative structure.
- Much narrative theory explores different ways of conceiving these variables.
- The middle stretch of poems do have slightly more narrative content or something.
- His range has expanded into tackling corners of history and mythology through long narrative stanzas and monologues.
- In essence, it is hard to grasp a true narrative thread in this book.

Derivatives

narratively

adverb

The play is based on narratively coherent stories, but the language is like a dream and half-invented, so the audience has to do a lot of piecing together for themselves.
Example sentencesExamples
- The severely under-lit, narratively incomprehensible, and primitively directed syrup-soaked piece of trash is so bad it's sweet.
- How did television, then, in its liminal position on the borders of the home, narratively organize the spatial boundaries of inside and outside, local and global?
- It's a satisfying light read, told in a minimalistic fashion - both narratively and linguistically.
- Not a lot goes on; it's usually narratively spare and dry in sentiment, but the seemingly simple mix produces surprising resonance.

Origin

Late Middle English (as an adjective): from French narratif, -ive, from late Latin narrativus 'telling a story', from the verb narrare (see narrate).

Definition of narrative in US English:

narrative

nounˈnɛrədɪvˈnerədiv

1A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
the hero of his modest narrative
Example sentencesExamples
- A five-minute coda tries to wrap up, while leaving nearly all the narrative threads hanging.
- So in other words, they're using the biblical gospel narratives in a symbolic way in these novels.
- The film's narrative tries to uncover just exactly what his role was.
- He contends that the mass media help to spread the narratives of history and everyday life which bind people together as a nation.
- Such grand narratives frequently obscure the sequence of events they are struggling to explain.
- Part of this admirably straightforward narrative was written, but not published, as a study for the commission.
- Mixing legend and history, he provides a coherent narrative based upon traditional materials.
- They also provide a compelling personal narrative of his life.
- A realist third-person narrative, its critical irony comes through in the novel's ambiguous, multivalent ending.
- Consequently, readers seeking a more traditional chronological narrative of political events might need to look elsewhere.
- His prose narratives, too, were bestsellers till the 18th century.
- We are even more dependent on Rose's selectivity with the pool of first-person narratives.
- Many narratives have also been written in more conventional language and forms by Aboriginal authors.
- Similarly, he acknowledges that the slave narratives were always survivors' stories.
- However, the author's first-person narrative evaporates when the action happens over the horizon.
- They opt instead for narratives that tell half of the story and narratives that tell an untrue story.
- These were Maori narratives written and read from the position of living in a European country.
- There are, then, three narrative strands.
- Their narratives were accounts of how a democratic state had been achieved.
- An event occurs, and it slowly becomes encrusted with narratives about what happened.
Synonyms
account, story, tale, chronicle, history, description, record, portrayal, sketch, portrait, statement, report, rehearsal, recital, rendering
1. 1.1 The narrated part or parts of a literary work, as distinct from dialogue.
  Example sentencesExamples
  It spools out and out of my mouth, narrative, dialogue and commentary.
  It is into this chronological narrative that he interlards verbatim dialogue, transcriptions and notations of the songs.
  The story CDs, which are on sale over the internet for £9.99, are made up of narrative, rhymes and songs.
  She's very good at dialogue, and the high ratio of talk to narrative is one reason why her stuff is so readable.
  So, the film is all about the triumph of spectacle over narrative, but sometimes you need just a little bit of narrative to make things worth while.
  Though carefully documented, the book primarily weaves strong narratives filled with lively anecdotes.
  The book is a compilation of Biblical narrative, rabbinic legends, prayers, homilies and songs.
  These various narratives are weaved in with combat footage and historical analysis.
  Altogether there are thirty-three narratives and twenty-two opinion statements.
  I was brought in to, essentially, write some voice-over dialogue and narrative for it, to buttress the story.
  These struggles were only the beginning, as similar feelings about dialogue and narrative nagged the back of my mind.
2. 1.2 The practice or art of telling stories.
  traditions of oral narrative
  Example sentencesExamples
  That being said, I'm all for a good story, but narrative and story are two different things.
  It has lots of different strands of narrative which come together in a complete story.
  They have yet to find a way of really telling a good story rather than just using narrative as a vehicle to get them from one visual gag to another.
  In the realm of mythic narrative, the same stories keep getting reincarnated.
  Nonfiction narrative is to my mind a higher art because the writer has far more demands put on them by the known facts.
  He does not dress them up with narrative; there is no story, just a jangle of exposed nerve endings.
  You can define narrative to make it the story or to make it the whole, and you can emphasise different aspects.
  Perhaps my own tendency to sit with narrative rather than poetry leads me in this direction.
  I have lately been thinking about the lasting effects of modernism and science on religious narrative.
  It didn't just object to certain kinds of story, but to narrative in general as a promoter of illusion.
  The short story cycle looks back to oral traditions of narrative while embodying signs of modernity.
  She says none of the five bite-sized operas is trying to break from traditional narrative.
  His chief area of expertise, and the subject he taught when the School became a teaching department, was oral narrative.
  Just as every story needs a preface, a truly erudite narrative simply cannot do without an introduction.
  The plot of history may not always be as credible as fictional narrative, but it can be just as fascinating.
  These pieces depend on narrative for their lives, animated by the stories we tell about them.
  Here is a man who understands the cinematic image, not just as vacuous glamour but as narrative and poetry.
  When I refer to narrative, I'm talking about story telling and delivery of a story.
  But it is the interest in fictional narrative that comes through most strongly.
  It does this by creating an atmosphere that is closer to poetry than to traditional prose narrative.
3. 1.3 A representation of a particular situation or process in such a way as to reflect or conform to an overarching set of aims or values.
  the coalition's carefully constructed narrative about its sensitivity to recession victims
  Example sentencesExamples
  It will also depend on the way we conceptualize him and where he fits into our own global narrative.
  Official American history diminishes or erases completely these bodies in its ideal narratives of progress.
  Such expectations may have been unrealistic, but it was part of an overall narrative about the Liberal Democrat path to government which depended not only on Liberal Democrat progress, but also Conservative decline.
  Journalists may love to break news, but they hate to contradict the narratives that crystallize around particular politicians or policies.
  American triumph at the end of World War II could reaffirm the master narrative of American conquest.
  The Louisiana chief executive is impossible to dismiss out of hand because he fits into several narratives that make him appealing to conservatives and to independent voters.
  Historians and politicians skillfully crafted the narrative of an active middle class who (in retrospect) had heroically waged the revolutionary struggle.
  This is a simple story that fits nicely into the overall narrative the President has been using already.
  Labour needs to find a new narrative. And the Conservatives must stick to their story.
  Can it really be right to have children when they'll grow up in a world dominated by narratives of social and environmental catastrophe?
  We have seen this before - the so-called Liberal media framing the narrative to fit Republicans.
  American constitutional history was dominated by a whiggish narrative in which progressive forces consistently supportive of civil rights and civil liberties triumphed over the dark forces of reaction.
  Constructing an expansive environmental narrative enabled activists to find new ways to seek, and sometimes achieve, long-standing political goals.
  The "narrative" that the President was under-achieving "would largely go away", he thought, particularly when health care reform passed.
  The history of the country as a whole "does not fit easily into a standard narrative of democracy" - assuming that there is anything like a "standard narrative of democracy".
  Especially in this country, we have allowed the development of a narrative in the media which privileges suspicion of domestic politicians over the understanding of global movements.
  The point is that with new governments, what we've come to regard as their narrative generally tends to become evident after the event.
  The bigger picture, however, is of a prime minister and a government that want to be more self-confident but are frustrated at the failure of their 'narrative' to find a more receptive audience.
  The party hopes the raft of policy announcements this week will show that their leader is developing a coherent and imaginative "narrative" that will define his general election campaign.
  He was a politician who fatally lacked a grasp of the importance of having a narrative to inspire supporters and enthuse the electorate.

adjectiveˈnɛrədɪvˈnerədiv

In the form of or concerned with narration.
a narrative poem
narrative technique
Example sentencesExamples
- Much narrative theory explores different ways of conceiving these variables.
- His range has expanded into tackling corners of history and mythology through long narrative stanzas and monologues.
- So it would be okay to inject more narrative drive into the story.
- The middle stretch of poems do have slightly more narrative content or something.
- The real narrative subtext here is the restoration of family and the recuperation of a nation and its history.
- The first 11 chapters of Genesis are generally taken as narrative history by young earth creationists.
- I would have probably continued reading this for the narrative techniques.
- You can view the whole thing as performance art with hints of narrative structure.
- First, it is too general to be of any use in distinguishing one narrative genre from another.
- But somehow we've lost the narrative thread that ties it all together.
- But that would have been owed to his two great narrative poems, rather than his plays.
- As resistant as this is to the imposition of narrative coherence, a feminist ethos is unmistakable.
- She is so incidental in her one narrative appearance that she is scarcely noticed.
- Perhaps more surprising than its efficiency as propaganda is the film's excellence as narrative cinema.
- And I am very happy that you like my characterization, and narrative style.
- A few more narrative tracks would have maybe filled in this information nicely.
- A review, like a novel, has a narrative arc to it.
- Human curiosity seems the obvious answer, and eavesdropping creates that narrative lack which provokes curiosity.
- In essence, it is hard to grasp a true narrative thread in this book.

Origin

Late Middle English (as an adjective): from French narratif, -ive, from late Latin narrativus ‘telling a story’, from the verb narrare (see narrate).

单词	narrative
释义	Definition of narrative in English: narrative noun ˈnarətɪvˈnɛrədɪv 1A spoken or written account of connected events; a story. a gripping narrative Example sentencesExamples A realist third-person narrative, its critical irony comes through in the novel's ambiguous, multivalent ending. Such grand narratives frequently obscure the sequence of events they are struggling to explain. Mixing legend and history, he provides a coherent narrative based upon traditional materials. So in other words, they're using the biblical gospel narratives in a symbolic way in these novels. Consequently, readers seeking a more traditional chronological narrative of political events might need to look elsewhere. However, the author's first-person narrative evaporates when the action happens over the horizon. An event occurs, and it slowly becomes encrusted with narratives about what happened. They opt instead for narratives that tell half of the story and narratives that tell an untrue story. Their narratives were accounts of how a democratic state had been achieved. Many narratives have also been written in more conventional language and forms by Aboriginal authors. We are even more dependent on Rose's selectivity with the pool of first-person narratives. A five-minute coda tries to wrap up, while leaving nearly all the narrative threads hanging. There are, then, three narrative strands. Part of this admirably straightforward narrative was written, but not published, as a study for the commission. The film's narrative tries to uncover just exactly what his role was. They also provide a compelling personal narrative of his life. His prose narratives, too, were bestsellers till the 18th century. Similarly, he acknowledges that the slave narratives were always survivors' stories. These were Maori narratives written and read from the position of living in a European country. He contends that the mass media help to spread the narratives of history and everyday life which bind people together as a nation. Synonyms account, story, tale, chronicle, history, description, record, portrayal, sketch, portrait, statement, report, rehearsal, recital, rendering 1.1mass noun The narrated part of a literary work, as distinct from dialogue. the dialogue and the narrative suffer from awkward syntax Example sentencesExamples The story CDs, which are on sale over the internet for £9.99, are made up of narrative, rhymes and songs. I was brought in to, essentially, write some voice-over dialogue and narrative for it, to buttress the story. The book is a compilation of Biblical narrative, rabbinic legends, prayers, homilies and songs. Though carefully documented, the book primarily weaves strong narratives filled with lively anecdotes. These struggles were only the beginning, as similar feelings about dialogue and narrative nagged the back of my mind. These various narratives are weaved in with combat footage and historical analysis. It spools out and out of my mouth, narrative, dialogue and commentary. Altogether there are thirty-three narratives and twenty-two opinion statements. She's very good at dialogue, and the high ratio of talk to narrative is one reason why her stuff is so readable. So, the film is all about the triumph of spectacle over narrative, but sometimes you need just a little bit of narrative to make things worth while. It is into this chronological narrative that he interlards verbatim dialogue, transcriptions and notations of the songs. 1.2mass noun The practice or art of telling stories. traditions of oral narrative Example sentencesExamples She says none of the five bite-sized operas is trying to break from traditional narrative. But it is the interest in fictional narrative that comes through most strongly. The plot of history may not always be as credible as fictional narrative, but it can be just as fascinating. Nonfiction narrative is to my mind a higher art because the writer has far more demands put on them by the known facts. The short story cycle looks back to oral traditions of narrative while embodying signs of modernity. In the realm of mythic narrative, the same stories keep getting reincarnated. It didn't just object to certain kinds of story, but to narrative in general as a promoter of illusion. It does this by creating an atmosphere that is closer to poetry than to traditional prose narrative. When I refer to narrative, I'm talking about story telling and delivery of a story. They have yet to find a way of really telling a good story rather than just using narrative as a vehicle to get them from one visual gag to another. That being said, I'm all for a good story, but narrative and story are two different things. Perhaps my own tendency to sit with narrative rather than poetry leads me in this direction. You can define narrative to make it the story or to make it the whole, and you can emphasise different aspects. These pieces depend on narrative for their lives, animated by the stories we tell about them. He does not dress them up with narrative; there is no story, just a jangle of exposed nerve endings. His chief area of expertise, and the subject he taught when the School became a teaching department, was oral narrative. Just as every story needs a preface, a truly erudite narrative simply cannot do without an introduction. It has lots of different strands of narrative which come together in a complete story. I have lately been thinking about the lasting effects of modernism and science on religious narrative. Here is a man who understands the cinematic image, not just as vacuous glamour but as narrative and poetry. 1.3 A representation of a particular situation or process in such a way as to reflect or conform to an overarching set of aims or values. the coalition's carefully constructed narrative about its sensitivity to recession victims Example sentencesExamples Especially in this country, we have allowed the development of a narrative in the media which privileges suspicion of domestic politicians over the understanding of global movements. We have seen this before - the so-called Liberal media framing the narrative to fit Republicans. Can it really be right to have children when they'll grow up in a world dominated by narratives of social and environmental catastrophe? The Louisiana chief executive is impossible to dismiss out of hand because he fits into several narratives that make him appealing to conservatives and to independent voters. Official American history diminishes or erases completely these bodies in its ideal narratives of progress. Constructing an expansive environmental narrative enabled activists to find new ways to seek, and sometimes achieve, long-standing political goals. The point is that with new governments, what we've come to regard as their narrative generally tends to become evident after the event. American triumph at the end of World War II could reaffirm the master narrative of American conquest. American constitutional history was dominated by a whiggish narrative in which progressive forces consistently supportive of civil rights and civil liberties triumphed over the dark forces of reaction. He was a politician who fatally lacked a grasp of the importance of having a narrative to inspire supporters and enthuse the electorate. The party hopes the raft of policy announcements this week will show that their leader is developing a coherent and imaginative "narrative" that will define his general election campaign. The "narrative" that the President was under-achieving "would largely go away", he thought, particularly when health care reform passed. This is a simple story that fits nicely into the overall narrative the President has been using already. The bigger picture, however, is of a prime minister and a government that want to be more self-confident but are frustrated at the failure of their 'narrative' to find a more receptive audience. Historians and politicians skillfully crafted the narrative of an active middle class who (in retrospect) had heroically waged the revolutionary struggle. Labour needs to find a new narrative. And the Conservatives must stick to their story. Journalists may love to break news, but they hate to contradict the narratives that crystallize around particular politicians or policies. The history of the country as a whole "does not fit easily into a standard narrative of democracy" - assuming that there is anything like a "standard narrative of democracy". Such expectations may have been unrealistic, but it was part of an overall narrative about the Liberal Democrat path to government which depended not only on Liberal Democrat progress, but also Conservative decline. It will also depend on the way we conceptualize him and where he fits into our own global narrative. adjective ˈnarətɪvˈnɛrədɪv In the form of or concerned with narration. a narrative poem narrative technique Example sentencesExamples The real narrative subtext here is the restoration of family and the recuperation of a nation and its history. First, it is too general to be of any use in distinguishing one narrative genre from another. The first 11 chapters of Genesis are generally taken as narrative history by young earth creationists. A review, like a novel, has a narrative arc to it. And I am very happy that you like my characterization, and narrative style. She is so incidental in her one narrative appearance that she is scarcely noticed. As resistant as this is to the imposition of narrative coherence, a feminist ethos is unmistakable. So it would be okay to inject more narrative drive into the story. But somehow we've lost the narrative thread that ties it all together. Perhaps more surprising than its efficiency as propaganda is the film's excellence as narrative cinema. Human curiosity seems the obvious answer, and eavesdropping creates that narrative lack which provokes curiosity. A few more narrative tracks would have maybe filled in this information nicely. I would have probably continued reading this for the narrative techniques. But that would have been owed to his two great narrative poems, rather than his plays. You can view the whole thing as performance art with hints of narrative structure. Much narrative theory explores different ways of conceiving these variables. The middle stretch of poems do have slightly more narrative content or something. His range has expanded into tackling corners of history and mythology through long narrative stanzas and monologues. In essence, it is hard to grasp a true narrative thread in this book. Derivatives narratively adverb The play is based on narratively coherent stories, but the language is like a dream and half-invented, so the audience has to do a lot of piecing together for themselves. Example sentencesExamples The severely under-lit, narratively incomprehensible, and primitively directed syrup-soaked piece of trash is so bad it's sweet. How did television, then, in its liminal position on the borders of the home, narratively organize the spatial boundaries of inside and outside, local and global? It's a satisfying light read, told in a minimalistic fashion - both narratively and linguistically. Not a lot goes on; it's usually narratively spare and dry in sentiment, but the seemingly simple mix produces surprising resonance. Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): from French narratif, -ive, from late Latin narrativus 'telling a story', from the verb narrare (see narrate). Definition of narrative in US English: narrative nounˈnɛrədɪvˈnerədiv 1A spoken or written account of connected events; a story. the hero of his modest narrative Example sentencesExamples A five-minute coda tries to wrap up, while leaving nearly all the narrative threads hanging. So in other words, they're using the biblical gospel narratives in a symbolic way in these novels. The film's narrative tries to uncover just exactly what his role was. He contends that the mass media help to spread the narratives of history and everyday life which bind people together as a nation. Such grand narratives frequently obscure the sequence of events they are struggling to explain. Part of this admirably straightforward narrative was written, but not published, as a study for the commission. Mixing legend and history, he provides a coherent narrative based upon traditional materials. They also provide a compelling personal narrative of his life. A realist third-person narrative, its critical irony comes through in the novel's ambiguous, multivalent ending. Consequently, readers seeking a more traditional chronological narrative of political events might need to look elsewhere. His prose narratives, too, were bestsellers till the 18th century. We are even more dependent on Rose's selectivity with the pool of first-person narratives. Many narratives have also been written in more conventional language and forms by Aboriginal authors. Similarly, he acknowledges that the slave narratives were always survivors' stories. However, the author's first-person narrative evaporates when the action happens over the horizon. They opt instead for narratives that tell half of the story and narratives that tell an untrue story. These were Maori narratives written and read from the position of living in a European country. There are, then, three narrative strands. Their narratives were accounts of how a democratic state had been achieved. An event occurs, and it slowly becomes encrusted with narratives about what happened. Synonyms account, story, tale, chronicle, history, description, record, portrayal, sketch, portrait, statement, report, rehearsal, recital, rendering 1.1 The narrated part or parts of a literary work, as distinct from dialogue. Example sentencesExamples It spools out and out of my mouth, narrative, dialogue and commentary. It is into this chronological narrative that he interlards verbatim dialogue, transcriptions and notations of the songs. The story CDs, which are on sale over the internet for £9.99, are made up of narrative, rhymes and songs. She's very good at dialogue, and the high ratio of talk to narrative is one reason why her stuff is so readable. So, the film is all about the triumph of spectacle over narrative, but sometimes you need just a little bit of narrative to make things worth while. Though carefully documented, the book primarily weaves strong narratives filled with lively anecdotes. The book is a compilation of Biblical narrative, rabbinic legends, prayers, homilies and songs. These various narratives are weaved in with combat footage and historical analysis. Altogether there are thirty-three narratives and twenty-two opinion statements. I was brought in to, essentially, write some voice-over dialogue and narrative for it, to buttress the story. These struggles were only the beginning, as similar feelings about dialogue and narrative nagged the back of my mind. 1.2 The practice or art of telling stories. traditions of oral narrative Example sentencesExamples That being said, I'm all for a good story, but narrative and story are two different things. It has lots of different strands of narrative which come together in a complete story. They have yet to find a way of really telling a good story rather than just using narrative as a vehicle to get them from one visual gag to another. In the realm of mythic narrative, the same stories keep getting reincarnated. Nonfiction narrative is to my mind a higher art because the writer has far more demands put on them by the known facts. He does not dress them up with narrative; there is no story, just a jangle of exposed nerve endings. You can define narrative to make it the story or to make it the whole, and you can emphasise different aspects. Perhaps my own tendency to sit with narrative rather than poetry leads me in this direction. I have lately been thinking about the lasting effects of modernism and science on religious narrative. It didn't just object to certain kinds of story, but to narrative in general as a promoter of illusion. The short story cycle looks back to oral traditions of narrative while embodying signs of modernity. She says none of the five bite-sized operas is trying to break from traditional narrative. His chief area of expertise, and the subject he taught when the School became a teaching department, was oral narrative. Just as every story needs a preface, a truly erudite narrative simply cannot do without an introduction. The plot of history may not always be as credible as fictional narrative, but it can be just as fascinating. These pieces depend on narrative for their lives, animated by the stories we tell about them. Here is a man who understands the cinematic image, not just as vacuous glamour but as narrative and poetry. When I refer to narrative, I'm talking about story telling and delivery of a story. But it is the interest in fictional narrative that comes through most strongly. It does this by creating an atmosphere that is closer to poetry than to traditional prose narrative. 1.3 A representation of a particular situation or process in such a way as to reflect or conform to an overarching set of aims or values. the coalition's carefully constructed narrative about its sensitivity to recession victims Example sentencesExamples It will also depend on the way we conceptualize him and where he fits into our own global narrative. Official American history diminishes or erases completely these bodies in its ideal narratives of progress. Such expectations may have been unrealistic, but it was part of an overall narrative about the Liberal Democrat path to government which depended not only on Liberal Democrat progress, but also Conservative decline. Journalists may love to break news, but they hate to contradict the narratives that crystallize around particular politicians or policies. American triumph at the end of World War II could reaffirm the master narrative of American conquest. The Louisiana chief executive is impossible to dismiss out of hand because he fits into several narratives that make him appealing to conservatives and to independent voters. Historians and politicians skillfully crafted the narrative of an active middle class who (in retrospect) had heroically waged the revolutionary struggle. This is a simple story that fits nicely into the overall narrative the President has been using already. Labour needs to find a new narrative. And the Conservatives must stick to their story. Can it really be right to have children when they'll grow up in a world dominated by narratives of social and environmental catastrophe? We have seen this before - the so-called Liberal media framing the narrative to fit Republicans. American constitutional history was dominated by a whiggish narrative in which progressive forces consistently supportive of civil rights and civil liberties triumphed over the dark forces of reaction. Constructing an expansive environmental narrative enabled activists to find new ways to seek, and sometimes achieve, long-standing political goals. The "narrative" that the President was under-achieving "would largely go away", he thought, particularly when health care reform passed. The history of the country as a whole "does not fit easily into a standard narrative of democracy" - assuming that there is anything like a "standard narrative of democracy". Especially in this country, we have allowed the development of a narrative in the media which privileges suspicion of domestic politicians over the understanding of global movements. The point is that with new governments, what we've come to regard as their narrative generally tends to become evident after the event. The bigger picture, however, is of a prime minister and a government that want to be more self-confident but are frustrated at the failure of their 'narrative' to find a more receptive audience. The party hopes the raft of policy announcements this week will show that their leader is developing a coherent and imaginative "narrative" that will define his general election campaign. He was a politician who fatally lacked a grasp of the importance of having a narrative to inspire supporters and enthuse the electorate. adjectiveˈnɛrədɪvˈnerədiv In the form of or concerned with narration. a narrative poem narrative technique Example sentencesExamples Much narrative theory explores different ways of conceiving these variables. His range has expanded into tackling corners of history and mythology through long narrative stanzas and monologues. So it would be okay to inject more narrative drive into the story. The middle stretch of poems do have slightly more narrative content or something. The real narrative subtext here is the restoration of family and the recuperation of a nation and its history. The first 11 chapters of Genesis are generally taken as narrative history by young earth creationists. I would have probably continued reading this for the narrative techniques. You can view the whole thing as performance art with hints of narrative structure. First, it is too general to be of any use in distinguishing one narrative genre from another. But somehow we've lost the narrative thread that ties it all together. But that would have been owed to his two great narrative poems, rather than his plays. As resistant as this is to the imposition of narrative coherence, a feminist ethos is unmistakable. She is so incidental in her one narrative appearance that she is scarcely noticed. Perhaps more surprising than its efficiency as propaganda is the film's excellence as narrative cinema. And I am very happy that you like my characterization, and narrative style. A few more narrative tracks would have maybe filled in this information nicely. A review, like a novel, has a narrative arc to it. Human curiosity seems the obvious answer, and eavesdropping creates that narrative lack which provokes curiosity. In essence, it is hard to grasp a true narrative thread in this book. Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): from French narratif, -ive, from late Latin narrativus ‘telling a story’, from the verb narrare (see narrate).
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