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How to pronounce narrative in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms narration, story, tale
Type of content, subject matter, substance, message
Has types folk tale, folktale, nursery rhyme, sob story, sob stuff, tearjerker, tall tale, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale


his narrative was interesting.
Type Words
Derivation narrate


narrative poetry.

Examples of narrative

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Each story is a first-person narrative that takes readers inside that character.
From the kansas.com
Jackson, Khadr's lawyer, challenged every detail of the prosecution's narrative.
From the washingtonpost.com
The book is a narrative account of the concrete steps he took to make it happen.
From the forbes.com
The other problem with the narrative is that Tom, the narrator, is so unlikable.
From the kansas.com
The narrative voice of The Virgin Suicides is that of an anonymous group of men.
From the guardian.co.uk
This hardboiled narrative is a lot more interesting than the try-hard apparatus.
From the guardian.co.uk
That every child has unique qualities is part of the Western cultural narrative.
From the guardian.co.uk
Postmodernism asserts anti foundationalism and the death of the grand narrative.
From the guardian.co.uk
The problem for any sport comes when its well of narrative threatens to run dry.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story; "narrative poetry"
  • A message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
  • A narrative is a made up story that is created in a constructive format (as a work of speech, literature, pictures, song, motion pictures, television, video games, theatre, musical theatre, or dance) that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events.
  • The systematic recitation of an event or series of events; That which is narrated; Telling a story; Being overly talkative; garrulous
  • (narratively) In a narrative manner: in the form of a story; In terms of narrative
  • Telling a story. Ballads, epics, and lays are different kinds of narrative poems.
  • A comment appended to an entry in a journal. It can be used to describe the nature of the transaction, and often in particular, where the other side of the entry went to (or came from).
  • The story told by a scene. Scenes should have a clear beginning, middle and end.
  • (na-RAH-tiv): any writing that tells a story. Most novels and short stories are placed into the categories of first-person and third-person narratives, which are based on who is telling the story and from what perspective.