Synonyms for narration
næˈreɪ ʃənnar·ra·tion

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1. narration

   History is a systematic record of past events. Annals and chronicles relate events with little regard to their relative importance, and with complete subserviency to their succession in time. Annals are yearly records; chronicles follow the order of time. Both necessarily lack emphasis, selection, and perspective. Archives are public records, which may be annals, or chronicles, or deeds of property, etc. Memoirs generally record the lives of individuals or facts pertaining to individual lives. A biography is distinctively a written account of one person's life and actions; an autobiography is a biography written by the person whose life it records. Annals, archives, chronicles, biographies, and memoirs and other records furnish the materials of history. History recounts events with careful attention to their importance, their mutual relations, their causes and consequences, selecting and grouping events on the ground of interest or importance. History is usually applied to such an account of events affecting communities and nations, tho sometimes we speak of the history of a single eminent life. Compare RECORD.

   See synonyms for FICTION.

   Synonyms:
   account, annals, archives, autobiography, biography, chronicle, history, memoir, memorial, muniment, narrative, recital, record, register, story

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1. narrative, narration, story, talenoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   tarradiddle, account, narrative, chronicle, tale, storey, report, recital, story, yarn, taradiddle, news report, write up, level, floor, history, fib

2. narration, recital, yarnnoun

   the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events

   "his narration was hesitant"

   Synonyms:
   yarn, narrative, recitation, story, reading, recital, thread, tale

3. narrationnoun

   (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth

   Synonyms:
   tale, yarn, narrative, recital, story

Matched Categories

1. • Account
   • Rhetoric
   • Section

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. narrationnoun

   Synonyms:
   recital, description, rehearsal, relation, account, statement

2. narrationnoun

   Synonyms:
   story, history, narrative, tale, chronicle

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1. narrationnoun

   Synonyms:
   narrative, relation, recital, story

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1. List of paraphrases for "narration":

   narrative, storytelling

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How to use narration in a sentence?

1. Shah Asad Rizvi:

   Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls

2. Chuck Lorre:

   We absolutely discussed ‘ Wonder Years ’ when we were writing, i’ve never worked with narration before and narration changes the way you write. We looked for inspiration that used it beautifully and no one did it better than ‘ The Wonder Years. ’.

3. Jorge Luis Borges:

   Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

4. Christopher Heywood:

   [A] literary feat of objective narration by an Afrikaner writer was Sword in the Sand (1969), Johannes Meintjes’ narration of Gideon Scheepers’ death by summary trial and execution. In Meintjes’ hands, history enters the realm of epic narrative