narrator

«narrator» in Mova's school dictionary: The person or voice who tells the story in a book, poem… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a narrator, narrators)

meaning for a pupil

1) The person or voice who tells the story in a book, poem, film or play. tree →

2) A person who reads or speaks the words that explain what is happening, as in a documentary, audiobook or school play. tree →

sense in the lessons

In English lessons you learn to find the narrator and ask who is telling the story: a first-person narrator says "I", a third-person narrator says "he", "she" or "they". A narrator can be honest or unreliable (not to be fully trusted). In school plays the narrator explains the scenes between the acting. Phrases: first-person narrator, third-person narrator, unreliable narrator, the narrator tells us.

examples

• The narrator of the story is a little dog. tree →
• In our class play I was the narrator. tree →
• "I opened the door," says the narrator, so it is a first-person story. tree →
• David Attenborough is the narrator of many nature programmes. tree →
• The narrator doesn't tell us the boy's name until the end. tree →
• Can we trust this narrator, or is he hiding something? tree →
• The audiobook narrator did funny voices for each character. tree →

note

Countable: a narrator, narrators. Spelled with -or. Verb: narrate; noun: narration, narrative. The narrator is not always the author: a writer can invent a narrator who is a child, an animal or a villain.

In the corpora

• The narrator is who tells the story, and it can be an animal or an object as well as a person.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «narrator» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.