Portrayal vs Narration - What's the difference?
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The act of portraying.
The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.
* 1866, Charlotte Yonge, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
* 1909, Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste
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.
As nouns the difference between portrayal and narration
is that portrayal is the act of portraying while narration is the act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.portrayal
English
Noun
(en noun)- He had already designed the portrayal of his father as the old white king, and himself as the young white king, in a series of woodcuts illustrating the narrative which culminated in the one romance of his life, ...
- For days afterwards you will not be able to look upon a child without recalling Lamb's portrayal of the grace of childhood.