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what is a narration?

Narration is the act of reporting events. You can report an event in two different ways:

1. By using the exact words of the speaker: This is called direct speech.

2. Without using the speaker's actual words: This is called Indirect/ Reported speech.

For more information, please refer to your study material.

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  1. Narratives can be organized in a number of thematic and/or formal/stylistic categories:non-fiction(e.g.New Journalism,creative non-fiction,biographies, andhistoriography); fictionalized accounts of historical events (e.g.anecdotes,myths, andlegends); and fiction proper (i.e.literatureinprose, such asshort storiesandnovels, and sometimes inpoetryanddrama, although in drama the events are primarily beingshowninstead oftold). Narrative is found in all forms of human creativity and art, includingspeech,writing,songs,film,television,games,photography,theatre, andvisual artssuch as painting (with themodern artmovements refusing the narrative in favour of theabstractand conceptual) that describes asequenceof events. The word derives from the Latin verbnarrare, "to tell", which is derived from the adjectivegnarus, "knowing" or "skilled".[2]
  2. The word "story" may be used as a synonym of "narrative". It can also be used to refer to the sequence of events described in a narrative. Narratives may also be nested within other narratives, such as narratives told by anunreliable narrator(acharacter) typically found innoir fictiongenre. An important part of narration is thenarrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process narration (see also "Narrative Aesthetics" below).
  3. Along withexposition,argumentation, anddescription, narration, broadly defined, is one of fourrhetorical modesof discourse. More narrowly defined, it is thefiction-writing modewhereby thenarratorcommunicates directly to the reader.
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