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Narration
Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration encompasses a set of techniques through which the creator of the story presents their story, including:
Narrative point of view: the perspective (or type of personal or non-personal “lens”) through which a story is communicated.
Narrative voice: the format through which a story is communicated.
Narrative tense: the grammatical placement of the story’s time-frame in the past, the present, or the future.A narrator is a personal character or a non-personal voice that the creator (author) of the story develops to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot. In the case of most written narratives (novels, short stories, poems, etc.), the narrator typically functions to convey the story in its entirety. The narrator may be an anonymous, non-personal, or stand-alone entity; the author as a character; or some other character appearing and participating within their own story, whether fictitious or factual. The narrator is considered a participant if they are a character within the story, and a non-participant if they merely relate the story to the audience without being involved in the plot. Usually, a non-participant narrator is either an implied character or a being or voice with varied degrees of omniscience. Some stories have multiple narrators to illustrate the storylines of various characters at the various times, creating a story with a complex perspective.
Narration encompasses who tells the story and how the story is told (for example, by using stream of consciousness or unreliable narration). In traditional literary narratives (such as novels, short stories, and memoirs), narration is a required story element; in other types of (chiefly non-literary) narratives, such as plays, television shows, video games, and films, narration is merely optional.
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Account (noun)
A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. from c. 1300
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Account (noun)
A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal. from 1833
“to keep one’s account at the bank.”
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Account (noun)
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
“No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.”
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Account (noun)
A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person’s sake.
“Don’t trouble yourself on my account.”
“on no account; on every account; on all accounts”
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Account (noun)
A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
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Account (noun)
A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description. from c. 1610
“An account of a battle.”
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Account (noun)
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
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Account (noun)
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
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Account (noun)
An authorization to use a service.
“I’ve opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project.”
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Account (noun)
A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
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Account (noun)
Profit; advantage.
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Account (verb)
To provide explanation.
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Account (verb)
To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. 14th-17th c.
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Account (verb)
To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. from 14th c.
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Account (verb)
To estimate, consider (something to be as described). from 14th c.
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Account (verb)
To consider that. from 14th c.
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Account (verb)
To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. from 15th c.
“An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.”
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Account (verb)
To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one’s actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. from 16th c.
“We must account for the use of our opportunities.”
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Account (verb)
To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. from 16th c.
“Idleness accounts for poverty.”
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Account (verb)
To establish the location for someone. from 19th c.
“After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.”
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Account (verb)
To count.
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Account (verb)
To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). from 19th c.
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Account (verb)
To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). from 14th c.
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Account (verb)
To count (up), enumerate. 14th-17th c.
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Narration (noun)
The act of relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
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Narration (noun)
That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
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Narration (noun)
That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.