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NARRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("narration" is a kind of...):
section; subdivision (a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical))
Domain category:
rhetoric (study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking))
Derivation:
narrate (narrate or give a detailed account of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
Example:
his narration was hesitant
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("narration" is a kind of...):
account; report (the act of informing by verbal report)
Meronyms (parts of "narration"):
body (the central message of a communication)
introduction (the first section of a communication)
close; closing; conclusion; end; ending (the last section of a communication)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "narration"):
recounting; relation; telling (an act of narration)
Derivation:
narrate (narrate or give a detailed account of)
narrate (provide commentary for a film, for example)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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
Example:
Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children
Synonyms:
narration; narrative; story; tale
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("narration" is a kind of...):
content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "narration"):
tearjerker (an excessively sentimental narrative)
tall tale (an improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story)
folk tale; folktale (a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk)
sob story; sob stuff (a sentimental story (or drama) of personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy)
fairy story; fairy tale; fairytale (a story about fairies; told to amuse children)
nursery rhyme (a tale in rhymed verse for children)
Instance hyponyms:
Canterbury Tales (an uncompleted series of tales written after 1387 by Geoffrey Chaucer)
Derivation:
narrate (narrate or give a detailed account of)
narrate (provide commentary for a film, for example)
Context examples:
Methodical, or well arranged, or very well delivered, it could not be expected to be; but it contained, when separated from all the feebleness and tautology of the narration, a substance to sink her spirit—especially with the corroborating circumstances, which her own memory brought in favour of Mr. Knightley's most improved opinion of Harriet.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He heard with attention the little narration concerning my studies and smiled at the names of Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus, but without the contempt that M. Krempe had exhibited.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Elinor, who had now been for some time reflecting on the propriety or impropriety of speedily hazarding her narration, without feeling at all nearer decision than at first, heard this; and perceiving that as reflection did nothing, resolution must do all, soon found herself leading to the fact.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
My own strength is exhausted, and I must tell, in a few words, what remains of my hideous narration.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“Since you have preserved my narration,” said he, “I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity.”
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
