narration
Origin of narration
1Other words from narration
- nar·ra·tion·al, adjective
- non·nar·ra·tion, noun
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This type of research was generated from the kind of hero-dog narration where you read about in the news a dog that pulled three children from the water where they were drowning.
Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog (Ep. 436) | Stephen J. Dubner | October 22, 2020 | FreakonomicsI was never exempt from criticism and rejection of the themes that my narrations addressed, which almost always focused on LGBTQ issues and dirty realism.
A non-binary Cuban artist is born again in Spain | Yariel Valdés González | October 16, 2020 | Washington BladeThese include the aforementioned frame narration, which casts a hypnotic spell over the proceedings that Flanagan uses to pull us along through the rocky bits where his plot is all over the map.
Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor is a calm, loving study in how to exorcise your ghosts | Aja Romano | October 9, 2020 | VoxHer Socialist Smile is an essay-style documentary that tells the story of Keller’s activism with images, narration, and onscreen text drawn from some of her speeches and writings.
For anyone struggling with feelings of despair and hopelessness, Bufka and Alvord suggest first paying attention to the narration in your head.
What mental health professionals have learned six months into pandemic care | Marion Renault | October 8, 2020 | Popular-Science
One of the great pleasures of his book is the narration of dozens of small but significant encounters with students.
A Teacher Returns to the Classroom and Gets Schooled | Nick Romeo | September 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDialogue and narration is at a minimum, as are as the drawings.
Holy Homophobia, Batman! A Queer Reading of the Dark Knight | Rich Goldstein | July 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhile these events are critical, what requires the most attention is the manner of her narration.
“I drive through the streets and see people without hope,” he says in the elegiac narration that ends the film.
Are Narcocorrido Mexican Drug Ballads Really That Bad? | Jimmy So | November 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTRight up until the end, we were massaging narration, making it a bit more personal so it seemed more like what I saw.
‘The Armstrong Lie,’ Alex Gibney’s Portrait of Lance as a Liar | Thomas Flynn | November 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBeneath this melodrama, the circumstances are recounted at great length, and some halting verses conclude the mournful narration.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. Harpernarration deals with occurrences; description deals with appearances.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterThe division of time that seems best is to take narration and Description in the first year.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Websternarration and description may be found in a piece of exposition; and all three may be employed in argument.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Websternarration tells what things do; description tells how things look.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
British Dictionary definitions for narration
/ (nəˈreɪʃən) /
the act or process of narrating
a narrated account or story; narrative
(in traditional rhetoric) the third step in making a speech, the putting forward of the question
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Cultural definitions for narration
The recounting of an event or series of events; the act of telling a story.
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