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Narration vs Narrative - What's the difference?

narration | narrative |

Narrative is a synonym of narration.

Narrative is a related term of narration.



As nouns the difference between narration and narrative

is that narration is the act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating while narrative is the systematic recitation of an event or series of events.

As an adjective narrative is

telling a story.

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.
  • References

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    narrative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Telling a story.
  • Overly talkative; garrulous.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Alexander Pope)
  • But wise through time, and narrative with age.
  • Of or relating to narration.
  • the narrative thrust of a film

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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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  • Derived terms

    * antenarrative * antinarrative * metanarrative