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narration

nɛˈreɪʃən
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  1. (n) narration
    (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth
  2. (n) narration
    the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events "his narration was hesitant"
  3. (n) narration
    a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program "his narrative was interesting","Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
Illustrations
After Stephen narrates his vision of Christ, he is thrown out of the city and stoned by the angry mob. Illustration for the New Testament, Acts. 7, 58. A title in Greek, English, German, Latin, French and Dutch.
After Stephen narrates his vision of Christ, he is thrown out of the city and stoned by the angry mob. Illustration for the New Testament, Acts. 7, 58. A title in Greek, English, German, Latin, French and Dutch.
Porcelain bowl with modeled wall and lobed rim, painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, black and gold. The wall is divided into four sections with narrative scenes: a scholar behind a desk in a pavilion with two servants, another man addresses him; three warriors on a terrace, one raised his sword to a pleading man kneeling on the ground; three people in an interior; the fourth with a sleeping man behind a desk and a man and woman on the terrace steps. At the bottom a man seated with a book and pitchers near rocks (possibly Li Taibai, eighth-century Chinese poet); on the edge a geomtric pattern with flowers alternating with four cartouches of flower sprays (lotus, chrysanthemum, prunus, peony). Wall has been broken. Famille verte.
Come with craft decoration with narrative scenes
Hexagonal porcelain bowl with spreading sides and scalloped rim, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, black and gold. The outside with a different narrative representation of Lü Dongbin in each of the six sections; on the bottom antiques; the border on the inside with a geometric pattern interspersed with cartouches with flower sprays. Marked on the bottom with the six-character mark of Emperor Chenghua. Four chips in the rim. Famille verte.
Hexagonal porcelain bowl with spreading sides and scalloped rim, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, black and gold. The outside with a different narrative representation of Lü Dongbin in each of the six sections; on the bottom antiques; the border on the inside with a geometric pattern interspersed with cartouches with flower sprays. Marked on the bottom with the six-character mark of Emperor Chenghua. Four chips in the rim. Famille verte.
Porcelain bowl, painted in underglaze blue. On the outside side two compartments with narrative scenes: three persons in an interior and two seated persons in an interior, between the compartments a tree near a rock; at the bottom three boys (fools) playing in a landscape. Marked on the bottom with the six-character mark of Emperor Kangxi in a double circle. Blue White.
Come with two narrative scenes and twice a tree by a rock
Baluster-shaped porcelain cup vase with a trumpet-shaped mouth, painted in underglaze blue. On the belly two large cartouches with squeezed corners with narrative scenes: a meeting between a scholar and a dignitary in an interior and two scholars in an enclosed garden looking at a bull presented by a servant. Also on the neck are two depictions: a dignitary on a terrace in front of a pavilion with two servants and a meeting between a scholar and a dignitary in a landscape. Around the foot, on the shoulder and the outer edge a band with a cloud motif. Blue White.
Baluster-shaped cup vase with four narrative scenes in cartouches
Square porcelain bowl with flat corners, painted in underglaze blue. On the wall on the outside four compartments with narrative scenes: a lady and gentleman in an interior, two gentlemen in an interior at a table with a man in the doorway; a horseman with a servant in a landscape, two ladies in an enclosed garden with a gentleman climbing over the fence; napkin with a ruyi motif on the flat corners; at the bottom a lady on a rock in an enclosed garden; the inner edge with napkin work alternated with cartouches with a flower branch (prunus, lotus). Marked on the bottom with the six-character mark of Emperor Xuande in a double circle. Blue White.
Square bowl with narrative scenes in craft decoration
Square bowl of porcelain with flattened corners and flared wall, painted in underglaze blue with narrative scenes, episodes from the<Roman van de westelijke kamer> (<Xixiang ji> ). On the outside four narrative scenes: two ladies and a gentleman on a fenced-in patio pointing somewhere, two ladies on a fenced-in patio watching a gentleman in a pavilion playing a qin, a lady in a room doing her hair in front of a mirror ; a lady and a gentleman on a terrace; on the bottom a square cartouche with three boys (fools) in a rocky landscape, one of which is holding a fruit basket. Marked on the bottom with the six-character mark of Emperor Xuande. Blue White.
Square bowl with four narrative scenes
Porcelain bowl with flat, spreading rim, painted in underglaze blue with narrative scenes from the<Roman van de westelijke kamer> (<Xixiang ji> ). Four scenes on the outside of the bowl; two ladies with fans on a fenced-in patio, a gentleman and lady on a fenced-in patio, two gentlemen at a pavilion with a lady in the doorway, two ladies on a fenced-in patio, one with a fan and pointing to one from the window of a pavilion leaning gentleman; at the bottom five playing boys (fools); on the inside of the rim napkin, on the outside a geometric motif. Marked on the bottom with the six-character mark of Emperor Kangxi. A chip in the rim. Blue White.
Come with four narrative scenes
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. narration
    (Rhet) That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject.
  2. narration
    That which is related; the relation in words or writing of the particulars of any transaction or event, or of any series of transactions or events; a narrative; story; history.
  3. narration
    The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; a recital of certain events, usually in chronological order; rehearsal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) narration
    The art of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
  2. (n) narration
    That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
  3. (n) narration
    Specifically In rhetoric, that part of an oration in which the speaker makes his statement of facts. The narration is to be distinguished from the proposition (prothesis) or statement of the subject. Besides the principal narration or narration proper (the diegesis), ancient rhetoricians distinguished subordinate forms of narration—the catadiegesis, epidiegesis, hypodiegesis, paradiegesis, and prodiegesis.
  4. (n) narration
    Synonyms Account, Relation, Narrative, etc. See account.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Narration
    act of telling: that which is told: an orderly account of what has happened
Quotations
Thomas Carlyle
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle
Lord Chesterfield
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Lord Chesterfield
Edward Gibbon
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
Edward Gibbon
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
Robert Coover
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. Doctorow
D. H. Lawrence
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
D. H. Lawrence
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. narratio,: cf. F. narration,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr.,—L. narrāre, -ātum—gnārus, knowing.

Usage in the news

For a movie about writing, about the transporting nature of a compelling narrative and the importance of crafting something timeless and true, "The Words" is needlessly complicated. readingeagle.com

Eileen Brady's association with New Seasons Market has been the central narrative of her campaign for Portland mayor. eek.com

As Mitt Romney rose in the polls against President Barack Obama following the first presidential debate, the media quickly grabbed onto a new narrative: the Romney comeback. citybeat.com

Edgar Allan Poe , read by multiple narrators. publishersweekly.com

Where Has Clinical Narrative Gone. psychiatrictimes.com

That would be Expelled, a new film narrated by Ben Stein that claims to expose how "Big Science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom". motherjones.com

Nabokov fans will be disappointed by narrator Stefan Rudnicki's stiff, staid performance in this audio version of the author's 13th novel. publishersweekly.com

How did nobody think of narrating terrible old movies with music sooner. inlander.com

'Shame' and 'Prometheus' star to narrate F1 doc '1'. austinchronicle.com

In Junot Diaz's 'This Is How You Lose Her,' narrator is as funny and profane as ever. cleveland.com

'Gatz' narrator lets us into impressive brain. daily-jeff.com

Third Jihad' narrator rallying in support of NYPD. ashingtontimes.com

King joins 'Third Jihad' narrator at NYPD rally. abclocal.go.com

Interview with Narrator Danny Glover. pbs.org

Actor (and narrator of Sam Cooke: Crossing Over ) Danny Glover discusses the first time he heard Sam Cooke's music, the social context in which Sam released his records, and the collective journey on which Sam's music takes us. pbs.org

Usage in scientific papers

One of them is referred to as the “vehicle B”, the other is the narrator’s vehicle (“my vehicle”).
Generating a 3D Simulation of a Car Accident from a Written Description in Natural Language: the CarSim System

An identification mechanism of the narrator has been added to the system.
Generating a 3D Simulation of a Car Accident from a Written Description in Natural Language: the CarSim System

When the sub ject is identified as the narrator, the link is obvious.
Generating a 3D Simulation of a Car Accident from a Written Description in Natural Language: the CarSim System

In the other cases, if there are only two vehicles, the narrator and another one, a new event is added to the event chain of the second vehicle.
Generating a 3D Simulation of a Car Accident from a Written Description in Natural Language: the CarSim System

Universal Access and Universal Service (as the “beginning” of the narrative discourse).
National Information Infrastructure Development in Canada and the U.S.: Redefining Universal Service and Universal Access in the Age of Techno-Economic Convergence

Usage in literature

The thread of the narrative may now be resumed pretty nearly where it was dropped a few pages back. "The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1" by John Charles Dent

Listen to adroitly narrated lies of detectives, caring only for vindication of their theories of guilt! "Oswald Langdon" by Carson Jay Lee

When their story is picked up again in the narrative, it will be found to be one of the most thrilling stories in American military exploits. "The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki" by Joel R. Moore

The theatrical style of the narrative was deplored by Beethoven himself at a subsequent period. "The Standard Oratorios" by George P. Upton

But I continue the narrative, and readers will judge for themselves. "The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido" by Henry Keppel

Strangely, too, Raikes did not comment upon the singular fact of the narrative itself. "The Flaw in the Sapphire" by Charles M. Snyder

It is noteworthy that these wares are already mentioned in Othere's narrative. "The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II" by A.E. Nordenskieold

It is clear, from the narrative, that the voyagers returned up the Illinois River. "The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago" by John S. C. Abbott

Because the very manner of narration is indicative of the man's character. "The Blue Wall" by Richard Washburn Child

The direct and simple narrative of Williams is plainly the work of an honest and courageous man. "A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I" by Francis Parkman

Usage in poetry
Oft pausing on his white-eyed inward look,
Some undermountain narrative he tells,
As gapped by Lykian heat the brook
Cut from the source that in the upland swells.
"Bellerophon" by George Meredith Author object (1834)
We fare the fishermen's venturesome way!
Far out the bank and the big fish shoaling,
The captain narrates; and just now unrolling
Sails run to shore a swift racing match;—
Good is the catch.
"Romsdal" by Bjornstjerne Bjornson Author object (80)
O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!
O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!
O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!
A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.
"A Carol Of Harvest For 1867" by Walt Whitman Author object (680)
Oh, Heaven! 'tis a dreadful calamity to narrate,
Because the victims have met with a cruel fate;
Little did they think they were going to lose their lives by fire,
On that night when to their beds they did retire.
"Calamity in London" by William Topaz McGonagall
A Persian lady we're informed—
This happened long, long years before
The Christian era ever dawned,
A thousand years, it may be more,
The date and narrative are so obscure,
I have to guess some things that should be sure.
"An Eastern Tale" by David John Scott