Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who narrates; one who recounts or states facts, details, etc.
- noun In the older oratorios and passions, the personage who sings the historical parts of the text, so as to give the proper setting for the dramatic and lyric numbers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
narrates or tells stories. - noun narratology The person or the "
voice " whose viewpoint is used in telling a story. - noun The person providing the
voice-over in adocumentary .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who tells a story
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Examples
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Donnie, after losing his job 6 months ago, which caused him to lose his house and truck, is now residing with his mother, and is still "reluctant" (the term narrator Julia Preston uses) to apply for the minimum wage jobs the illegal immigrants did.
The Crone Speaks archrone 2009
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In wondering whether time is, in fact "a line," the narrator is also announcing the novel's preoccupation with the relationship of time and memory, whether the latter always conditions the former, or whether it is possible to get an accurate sense of the former while thinking of it as a "line."
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Another way the narrator is annoying is that he doesn't talk to us.
Wishing Woody had shot the narrator or, better yet, not shot Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2009
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The final way the narrator is annoying is that his voice is just plain grating.
Wishing Woody had shot the narrator or, better yet, not shot Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2009
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And the narrator is a character, but, you know, we find out who the narrator is but not till close to the end of the novel.
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While there was Elie Wiesel's Night, Primo Levi's If This Is a Man, in these stories, the narrator is a witness.
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I undestand that the narrator is an Easterling himself; in that case he wouldn't call it an "Easterling style".
superversive: Website update superversive 2010
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In wondering whether time is, in fact "a line," the narrator is also announcing the novel's preoccupation with the relationship of time and memory, whether the latter always conditions the former, or whether it is possible to get an accurate sense of the former while thinking of it as a "line."
July 2010 2010
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Unless the narrator is actually a character in this story?
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum 2009
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In wondering whether time is, in fact "a line," the narrator is also announcing the novel's preoccupation with the relationship of time and memory, whether the latter always conditions the former, or whether it is possible to get an accurate sense of the former while thinking of it as a "line."
Time's Arrow 2010
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