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narrative [ˈnærətɪv] n 1. an account, report, or story, as of events, experiences, etc. 2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (sometimes preceded by the) the part of a literary work that relates events 3. the process or technique of narrating adj
1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) telling a story a narrative poem 2. of or relating to narration narrative art narratively adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
narrative Translations narrative n (= act of narrating) → Erzählen nt; (of events, journey) → Schilderung f; he has a gift for narrative → er ist ein talentierter Erzähler adj → erzählend; ability etc → erzählerisch; narrative poem → Ballade f; (modern) → Erzählgedicht nt; narrative structure → Erzählstruktur f narrative [ˈnærətɪv] 1. adj → narrativo/a 2. n → narrazione f; (technique) → narrativa narrative [ˈnærətɪv] 1. adj → narrativo/a 2. n → narrazione f; (technique) → narrativa How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This Narrative contains many affecting incidents, many passages of great eloquence and power; but I think the most thrilling one of them all is the de- scription DOUGLASS gives of his feelings, as he stood soliloquizing respecting his fate, and the chances of his one day being a freeman, on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay--viewing the receding vessels as they flew with their white wings before the breeze, and apostrophizing them as animated by the living spirit of freedom. Round the central figure in the narrative other characters will be found grouped, in sharp contrast -- contrast, for the most part, in which I have endeavored to make the element of humor mainly predominant. The most thoroughgoing of all distinctions in literature, as in the other Fine Arts, is that between (1) Substance, the essential content and meaning of the work, and (2) Form, the manner in which it is expressed (including narrative structure, external style, in poetry verse-form, and many related matters). |
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