narrational
- adjective
- /nəˈreɪʃənl/
- Literature
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narrativo
- The film's narrational techniques offered a unique perspective on the main character's journey.
Examples
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It takes the voided solidity of the world and literally rediscloses it to us, dressing it up in the significant promise of a narrational and redemptive causality.
Academic text (1995) -
It can belatedly give us the establishing shots that it withholds at first, and can even try to produce knowledge through the narrational ordering of its elements.
Academic text (1995) -
Kalmus supplied a catalogue of the emotional values of specific colors and suggested their potential narrational functions.
Academic text (1998) -
The splitting-unifying is both a psychological-thematic dimension and a narrational-technical one.
Academic text (1992) -
Another naturalization (which supplies a motivation for the narrational act) shows up in the apostrophic mode.
Academic text (1994) -
Rimmon-Kenan, though clearly believing that the strategy on the whole has been productive, recognizes that the time has come for a reclamation of lost narrational aspects.
Academic text (1992) -
Soviet cinema presented a powerful challenge to classical cinema in terms of narrative unity, narrational voice, point of view, and spatial and temporal continuity (Bordwell, Staiger, and Thompson 73-74).
Academic text (1998) -
The producers and the recipients of the sketch and synopsis stages of the narrative belong to our actual world and are nonfictive beings, whereas the producers and recipients on the narrational level of the narrative belong to a fictive world and are genuinely fictive.
Academic text (2004) -
The narrational style of the author captivated the audience during the storytelling session.
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In his book, the narrational approach helped to create a vivid picture of the historical events.
Synonyms
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About telling a story in speech or writing
Relating to the voice that tells a story
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word narrational comes from the Latin verb narrare, which means 'to tell', and you can see the same root in English words like narrate, narrator, and narrative. So narrational simply describes the act or way of telling a story.