explain why narrative is a narravtive or what is a narrative?
2007-01-24 11:37:17 · 9 answers · asked by Daisy 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
A narrative is the voice the speaks throughout the background of a novel, if it's in the 3rd person (i.e., someone floating "above" the novel, not one of the characters) then it frequently knows what the characters' actions are and quite often their thoughts. It is usually omniscient (knows everything). Harry Potter is written in the 3rd person.
A novel can also be in the first person, however, which is told BY one of the characters. "To Kill A Mockingbird" is in the first person, told by Scout. The view with this can be slanted according to what Scout sees and knows, and her emotions.
2007-01-24 11:47:03 · answer #1 · answered by Beth D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A narrative is the actual telling of a story by its author.
2007-01-24 11:45:21 · answer #2 · answered by Imogen Sue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The particular array of rhetorical elements, strategies and choice of language that an author utilises to construct a desired meaning. In other words, look at how politicians make us believe what they want, by using words like "We are freedom". Narrative is not only the way in which a text (be it print or electronic or a picture) tells us something, but rather, how it's telling it.
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2007-01-24 11:52:28 · answer #3 · answered by atenea 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Main Entry: nar·ra·tive
Pronunciation: 'ner-&-tiv, 'na-r&-
Function: noun
1 : something that is narrated : STORY, ACCOUNT
2 : the art or practice of narration
3 : the representation in art of an event or story; also : an example of such a representation
- narrative adjective
- nar·ra·tive·ly adverb
there is the defintion
2007-01-24 11:47:59 · answer #4 · answered by topdawgco97 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a narrative is a story with a narrator. a narrator is a person that explains whats going on in the story.
2007-01-24 11:49:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-01 05:06:50 · answer #6 · answered by mosesjr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the representation in art of an event or story.
2007-01-24 11:47:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a story with a narrarator...
2007-01-24 11:44:17 · answer #8 · answered by Jack B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wot the ****?!? I dunno u got me there!!
2007-01-24 11:44:55 · answer #9 · answered by x_vodkachick_x 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋