narrative
part of speech
noun (a narrative, narratives); adjective (narrative)
meaning for a pupil
1) A story, or a description of events in order. tree →
2) (adjective) Telling a story (narrative writing, a narrative poem). tree →
3) The way a story or set of events is told or explained (the official narrative). tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah it is the storytelling parts about people and events, as distinct from the laws. Interpretation: Tradition finds laws and lessons in the stories too, and the rabbis called such storytelling aggadah. In the primary lessons: In English lessons: narrative writing has a beginning, middle and end, characters and a setting. A narrative poem tells a story. In the news, a narrative is the story people tell about events. Phrases: narrative writing, first-person narrative, narrative poem.
examples
- Write a narrative about a day at the beach. tree →
- A narrative has a beginning, a middle and an end. tree →
- The poem is a narrative about a brave knight. tree →
- Her narrative of the trip made us laugh. tree →
- This book has a first-person narrative using "I". tree →
- The class read the narrative aloud. tree →
- All this suggests that this is a very early and common form of narrative. tree →
note
Countable. Verb: narrate; person: narrator. Said "NA-ruh-tiv". Narrative writing (stories) differs from non-fiction like reports and instructions.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «narrative» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.