Narrative vs Chronicle - What's the difference?
narrative | chronicle |
Telling a story.
Overly talkative; garrulous.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Alexander Pope)
Of or relating to narration.
The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
That which is narrated.
A representation of an event or story.
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A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To record in or as in a chronicle.
As nouns the difference between narrative and chronicle
is that narrative is the systematic recitation of an event or series of events while chronicle is a written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.As an adjective narrative
is telling a story.As a verb chronicle is
to record in or as in a chronicle.narrative
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Adjective
(en adjective)- But wise through time, and narrative with age.
- the narrative thrust of a film