nonnarrative
- adjective
- /nɒnˈnærətɪv/
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no narrativo
- The lecture was filled with nonnarrative information, presenting facts and statistics without telling a story.
Examples
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Descriptive art, on the other hand, focuses on nonnarrative objects (e.g., pitchers, onions, or unrecognizable, ordinary people) in stasis.
Academic text (2017) -
Two additional studies support the presence of significant associations between (nonnarrative) language samples and norm-referenced test scores.
Academic text (2014) -
The footnotes and the appendices, then, accentuate the structure of the entire book as predominantly nonnarrative, appendicular, and interpolative.
Academic text (2005) -
Questions of fact and interpretation raised in this context can be used to initiate historical inquiry, refer students to other sources, including the full array of nonnarrative genres, and provide a forum for the presentation of student interpretations.
Academic text (1995) -
These are all deictic tenses, tenses that occur most naturally in everyday discourse and in nonnarrative genres such as description and commentary.
Academic text (2006) -
The individual uses of the simple present in Brontë's novels can all be understood as deriving from the meanings of this form in nonnarrative contexts.
Academic text (1992) -
Yet no matter how nonlinear, film remains temporal, a condition that in Gasoline Stations is frustrated by both the nonnarrative nature of the sequence and the utter stillness of the photographs themselves.
Academic text (2005) -
To illustrate his point, White (1987) referred to nonnarrative forms of recording history such as the annal and the chronicle, which, as he suggested, "do not conclude; they simply terminate" (p. 8).
Academic text (1998) -
Her essay was mainly nonnarrative, structured around themes rather than a sequential plot.
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The documentary used a nonnarrative approach, focusing on interviews and footage rather than a traditional storyline.
Synonyms
A film or book that has no clear story and focuses on images
Not following the usual order of a story or common storytelling rules
Antonyms
How Narrative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nonnarrative comes from the parts non- meaning 'not' and narrative meaning 'story' or 'to tell'. So it describes something that does not tell a story or is not in story form.