- narrative, narration, story, tale - a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
--1 is a kind of message, content, subject matter, substance
--1 has particulars:tearjerker; Canterbury Tales; tall tale; folktale, folk tale; sob story, sob stuff; fairytale, fairy tale, fairy story; nursery rhyme Derived forms: verb narrate1, verb narrate2 - narration, recital, yarn - the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events; "his narration was hesitant"
--2 is a kind of report, account
--2 has parts:
--2 has particulars: relation, telling, recountingbody; introduction; conclusion, end, close, closing, ending Derived forms: verb narrate1, verb narrate2 - narration - (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth
--3 is a kind of section, subdivision
Derived form: verb narrate2