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What (who) is narrate - definition

ACCOUNT OF A SERIES OF RELATED EVENTS OR EXPERIENCES
Narratives; Narrated; Narraration; Fictional story; Narrator (fiction); Narrative literature; Narratress; Narator; Psychological narrative; Narrate; Narrating; Narrative writer; Illness narrative; Chaos narrative; Cure narrative; Quest narrative; Restoration narrative; Healing narrative; Spoken narrative; Narrative story
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narrate         
[n?'re?t]
¦ verb give a spoken or written account of.
?provide a commentary to accompany (a film, story, etc.).
Derivatives
narratable adjective
narration noun
narrator noun
narratorial nar?'t?:r??l adjective
Origin
C17 (earlier (ME) as narration): from L. narrat-, narrare 'relate'.
narrate         
v. (B) she narrated her story to us
narrate         
v. a.
Relate, recite, recount, rehearse, tell, detail, describe, give an account of.

Wikipedia

Narrative

A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare (to tell), which is derived from the adjective gnarus (knowing or skilled). Narration (i.e., the process of presenting a narrative) is a rhetorical mode of discourse, broadly defined (and paralleling argumentation, description, and exposition), is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse. More narrowly defined, it is the fiction-writing mode in which a narrator communicates directly to an audience. The school of literary criticism known as Russian formalism has applied methods that are more often used to analyse narrative fiction, to non-fictional texts such as political speeches.

Oral storytelling is the earliest method for sharing narratives. During most people's childhoods, narratives are used to guide them on proper behavior, cultural history, formation of a communal identity, and values, as especially studied in anthropology today among traditional indigenous peoples.

Narrative is found in all forms of human creativity, art, and entertainment, including speech, literature, theatre, music and song, comics, journalism, film, television, animation and video, video games, radio, game-play, unstructured recreation, and performance in general, as well as some painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and other visual arts, as long as a sequence of events is presented. Several art movements, such as modern art, refuse the narrative in favor of the abstract and conceptual.

Narrative can be organized into a number of thematic or formal categories: nonfiction (such as creative nonfiction, biography, journalism, transcript poetry, and historiography); fictionalization of historical events (such as anecdote, myth, legend, and historical fiction) and fiction proper (such as literature in the form of prose and sometimes poetry, short stories, novels, narrative poems and songs, and imaginary narratives as portrayed in other textual forms, games, or live or recorded performances). Narratives may also be nested within other narratives, such as narratives told by an unreliable narrator (a character) typically found in the genre of noir fiction. An important part of many narratives is its narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a written or spoken commentary (see also "Aesthetics approach" below).

Pronunciation examples for narrate
1. narrate these stories.
The Magic of Sleep _ Michael Acton Smith _ Talks at Google
2. Narrate your values.
Yalda Uhls _ Talks at Google
3. because you narrate it.
Matthew McConaughey _ Greenlights _ Talks at Google
4. Classic prose narrates ongoing events,
The Sense of Style _ Steven Pinker _ Talks at Google
5. to visually narrate a story.
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Examples of use of narrate
1. They narrate the travails of husbands victimised by their wives.
2. Instead his voice will narrate a recorded audio tour.
3. Post Lagaan, there has been an effort to narrate stories based in the heartland of India.
4. An animated version of AB appears in the video to narrate tales through various songs.
5. One exception to the direct adaptation was using the character Dilios to narrate the story.