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# narrative

noun (a narrative, narratives); adjective (narrative)

«narrative» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A story, or a description of events in order. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#m1)
2. (adjective) Telling a story (narrative writing, a narrative poem). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#m2)
3. The way a story or set of events is told or explained (the official narrative). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#m3)

### In the lessons

In English lessons: narrative writing has a beginning, middle and end, characters and a setting. A narrative poem tells a story. In the news, a narrative is the story people tell about events. Phrases: narrative writing, first-person narrative, narrative poem.

### Examples

- Write a narrative about a day at the beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x1)
- A narrative has a beginning, a middle and an end. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x2)
- The poem is a narrative about a brave knight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x3)
- Her narrative of the trip made us laugh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x4)
- This book has a first-person narrative using "I". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x5)
- The class read the narrative aloud. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x6)
- All this suggests that this is a very early and common form of narrative. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/#x7)

### Note

Countable. Verb: narrate; person: narrator. Said "NA-ruh-tiv". Narrative writing (stories) differs from non-fiction like reports and instructions.

## In Jewish tradition

In the Torah it is the storytelling parts about people and events, as distinct from the laws.

**Interpretation.** Tradition finds laws and lessons in the stories too, and the rabbis called such storytelling aggadah.

### Note

Countable. Verb: narrate; person: narrator. Said "NA-ruh-tiv". Narrative writing (stories) differs from non-fiction like reports and instructions.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «narrative» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/narrative/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«narrative» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/narrative.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «narrative» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/narrative/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«narrative» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/narrative.html) on Mova free.