narration

(nă-rā'shən)
n.

1. The act, process, or an instance of narrating.
2. Narrated material.

narrational nar·ra'tion·al adj.
narrationally nar·ra'tion·al·ly adv.

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noun

A recounting of past events: account, chronicle, description, history, narrative, report, statement, story, version. See words.

n

Definition: description, reading
Antonyms: concealment, suppression

narration, the process of relating a sequence of events; or another term for a narrative. In the first sense, narration is often distinguished from other kinds of writing ( dialogue, description, commentary) which may be included in a narrative; it is also distinguished from the events recounted, i.e. from the story, and from the narrative itself.

Verb: narrate.

The recounting of an event or series of events; the act of telling a story.

For a list of words related to narration, see:

• Television Programming and Institutions - narration: voice-over description of events on screen or gaps in visual story
• Rhetoric and Figures of Speech - narration: form of discourse emphasizing recounting of event

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