- describing events or telling a story
- narrative fiction
- Discuss the role of time in the narrative structure of the Iliad.
- He is best known for his narrative poem of the Civil War.
Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective): from French narratif, -ive, from late Latin narrativus ‘telling a story’, from the verb narrare (from gnarus ‘knowing’).Definitions on the go
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