narrational
Relating to narration
Narrational describes something relating to or characteristic of narration—the act of telling a story or recounting events.
The term appears mainly in film studies and literary criticism: The film's narrational style keeps viewers uncertain about what's real.
It emphasizes the manner or technique of storytelling rather than the story itself.
Recounting events aloud
- voiceSound from throat
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
- techniqueSkilled way of performing
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
recounting · discourse · framing · viewpoint · omniscient · first-person · third-person · unreliable
Imagined narrative work
- novelNew and unusual
- proseUnversified language
- cinematicRelating to motion pictures
- documentaryFactual film about reality
authorial · Dickensian · epistolary · frame · flashback · foreshadowing · digression · aside
Arranged in straight succession
- nonlinearNot in sequence
- embeddedSet firmly within something
- layeredHaving multiple levels
- episodicOccurring in distinct segments
fragmented · circular · parallel · nested · interwoven · braided · sequential · discontinuous
storytelling
Recounting events aloud
- voiceSound from throat
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
- techniqueSkilled way of performing
exposition · recounting · discourse · framing · viewpoint · omniscient · first-person · third-person · unreliable · detachment
fiction
Imagined narrative work
documentary · authorial · Dickensian · epistolary · frame · flashback · foreshadowing · digression · aside · interjection
linear
Arranged in straight succession
episodic · fragmented · circular · parallel · nested · interwoven · braided · sequential · discontinuous · modular
narrationaldialogic
Involving reciprocal exchange
conversational · dramatic · monologic · dialogical · interlocutory
narrationaldramatic
Strikingly expressive or sudden
presentational · mimetic · scenic · visual · non-verbal
- third-person narrationStorytelling from outside perspective
- audio narration
- first-person narrationStory from speaker's viewpoint
- audiobook narrationVocal delivery of written text
- voice narrationSpoken account over visuals
- voiceover narrationSpoken words over visuals