A narrative is a story that you write or tell to someone, usually in great detail. A narrative can be a work of poetry or prose, or even song, theater, or dance.
Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.
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; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney''s stories entertain adults as well as children"
Adjective S.
consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story; "narrative poetry"
a.
Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the
particulars of an event or transaction.
a.
Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell
particulars of events; story-telling; garrulous.
n.
That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a
continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a
story.
Narrative
But wise through time, and narrative with age.
Narrative
Cyntio was much taken with my narrative.
Of or pertaining to narration; relating to the particulars of an event or transaction.
That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story.
Usage Examples
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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Other Usage ExamplesMy mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.
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