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Definition of Narration

1. Noun. 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. "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"

2. Noun. The act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events. "His narration was hesitant"

3. Noun. (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth.

Definition of Narration

1. n. The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

Definition of Narration

1. Noun. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating. ¹

2. Noun. 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. ¹

3. Noun. (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Narration

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Narration

narnauks narquois narrable narragansetts narras narrases narratability narratable narrate narrated

narratee narrater narraters narrates narrating narration narrational narrations narrative narrative link

narrative structure narrative structures narrativeless narratively narratives narrativise narrativised narrativises narrativising narrativity

Literary usage of Narration

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples by John Franklin Genung (1891)
"We will discuss first the laws, procedures, and cautions of narration pure ... Narration is the recounting, in succession, of the particulars that make up a ..."

2. The Study and Practice of Writing English by Gerhard Richard Lomer (1914)
"Narration 1. Definition: Narration is the recounting of a series of events. In narration the action or event is the indispensable element. ..."

3. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"163) is the process of laying before the tribunal the witness's results of his Observation or Perception, and his Recollection, ie the process of Narration ..."

4. The Elements of Rhetoric by James De Mille (1878)
"Narration. IN most cases narration is connected with description, ... Narration refers to a succession of events detailed in the order of time. ..."

5. The Short-story by William Patterson Atkinson (1916)
"Ill THE SHORT-STORY AS Narration All the previous discussion must not obscure the fact that the short-story is a form of narration and subject to all that ..."

6. A College Manual of Rhetoric by Charles Sears Baldwin (1902)
"CHAPTER V Narration 153. Of artistic composition in words the type is narration. Narration is rather inclusive of description than distinct from it. ..."

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