Words and phrases that have a meaning related to narrative: (193 results)
Contains:
body, close, closing, conclusion, end, ending, introduction
Often used in the same context:
narration, storytelling, storyline, conceit, prose, plotline, fable, chronology, mythology, metafiction, didacticism, picaresque, allegory, expository, literalness, fictionalization, fictions, doubleness, hagiography, mythos, bildungsroman, chronological sequence, stylization, chronological, protagonist, engrossing, poeticism, phantasmagoria, story, interlaces, melodrama, narrators, vignettes, stylisation, magic realism, pastiche, worldview, staginess, characters, tropes, subtext, intertextuality, dialectic, script, pulpier, pathos, interiority, illusionism, autobiographic, explication, villanelle, limning, naturalism, flashbacks, archetypes, tale, verite, riveting, foregrounding, absurdism, cogitations, magic realist, polemic, denouement, mimesis, exegeses, epilogue, spareness, anouilh, mise en scene, nabokovian, factuality, ambiguousness, screenplay, insubstantiality, sestina, artifice, roundelay, verisimilitude, interweaving, compendious, biographical, elegiac, digressions, interludes, deracination, auteurism, metaphors, grand guignol, oeuvre, inexorability, shavian, epigraphs, apologia, unintelligibility, dramatizations, literalism, arioso, sophoclean, indeterminacy, tautness, phantasy, narratives, telling, narrations, retelling, text, account, parable, chronicle, genealogy, memoir, autobiography, exposition, myth, theme, biography, novelistic, formulaic, descriptive, didactic, ethnographic, folkloristic, imagistic, autobiographical, discursive, filmic, homiletic, impressionistic, naturalistic, rhetorical, allusive, anecdotal, documentary, historiographic, performative
More specific:
fairytale, fairy story, folktale, nursery rhyme, recounting, relation, sob story, sob stuff, tall tale
Appears in the definition of:
., account, anticlimactic, ballad, canvas, canvass, chronicle, concept album, conrad, detective story, divina commedia, divine comedy, edwin arlington robinson, epic, epic poem, epos, hastinapura, henry wadsworth longfellow, heroic poem, history, intent, joseph conrad, lay, longfellow, murder mystery, picture, recitative, robinson, saga, short story, story, stuff, tearjerker, tension, teodor josef konrad korzeniowski, word picture
More general:
report
Synonyms:
Also try:communicative, communicatory, recital, yarn
— Nouns for narrative: discourse, structure, form, history, analysis, time, poems, technique, strategies, poetry, theory, more...
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