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Narration vs Commentary - What's the difference?

narration | commentary |

As nouns the difference between narration and commentary

is that narration is the act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating while commentary is a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.

narration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
  • 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.
  • (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

    • Related terms

    * narrate * narrative * narrator

    References

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    commentary

    English

    (wikipedia commentary) (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (commentaries)
  • A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
    • This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary . -(Henry Hallam).
  • A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
  • An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.

    • Derived terms

    * audio commentary * commentary track * DVD commentary * political commentary * social commentary * supercommentary

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