Narrative vs Commentary - What's the difference?
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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.
* '>citation
A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
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.
As nouns the difference between narrative and commentary
is that narrative is the systematic recitation of an event or series of events 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.As an adjective narrative
is telling a story.narrative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But wise through time, and narrative with age.
- the narrative thrust of a film
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* antenarrative * antinarrative * metanarrativecommentary
Noun
(commentaries)- This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary . -(Henry Hallam).