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account |
a story or report; narrative. [1/16 definitions] |
allegory |
a symbolic story or narrative. [1/2 definitions] |
antinarrative |
combined form of narrative. |
ballad |
a narrative poem or song. [1/2 definitions] |
ending |
the last part; conclusion, esp. of a narrative or dramatic plot. [1/2 definitions] |
episode |
a single incident or event, or a related group of these, making up a segment in a life or a long narrative. [1/3 definitions] |
fiction |
literary narrative, esp. in prose form, that is not necessarily based on real events. [1/3 definitions] |
history |
a chronological narrative of past events. [1/5 definitions] |
idyll |
a romantic epic or narrative poem. [1/4 definitions] |
in medias res |
(Latin) in the middle of things; starting in the middle, rather than at the beginning of a series of events, as a narrative. |
interior monologue |
in literature, material that expresses a character's inner thoughts, often presented in stream-of-consciousness narrative. |
motion picture |
a dramatic or documentary narrative or the like that is presented by means of such images, usu. with accompanying sound; film or movie. [1/2 definitions] |
nonnarrative |
combined form of narrative. |
payoff |
(informal) the most interesting or climactic part of a narrative, series of events, or the like. [1/3 definitions] |
relation |
a narrative account. [1/6 definitions] |
roman |
(French) a medieval French metrical narrative developed from ancient epic poems. [1/2 definitions] |
saga |
a medieval Nordic or Icelandic prose narrative, esp. one describing the historical or legendary exploits of a single person or family. [2 definitions] |
sequel |
a book, film, or other narrative that is complete in itself but continues a story begun in an earlier work. [1/2 definitions] |
synopsis |
a short statement giving an overview, the main principles, or the sequence of events of a narrative, argument, article, or the like; summary; abstract. |
trouvere |
any of a group of twelfth- and thirteenth-century northern French poets who composed narrative works and lyrics on the theme of courtly love. |
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