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narrative | narrativize |

As an adjective narrative

is telling a story.

As a noun narrative

is the systematic recitation of an event or series of events.

As a verb narrativize is

to turn into a narrative.

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.
  • * '>citation
  • Derived terms

    * antenarrative * antinarrative * metanarrative

    narrativize

    English

    Verb

    (narrativiz)
  • To turn into a narrative.
  • *1987 , John George Moss, Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature
  • *:...for to narrate, to narrativize , in fiction or criticism, is also to exercise power.
  • *1996 , Monika Fludernik, Towards a 'natural' Narratology
  • *:Readers narrativize such texts by resorting to the experiencing frame, overruling the oddity in pronominal usage that makes such texts difficult...
  • *2005 , Richard A Gilmore, Doing Philosophy at the Movies
  • *:To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself...