Author:
Laura McKinney
Date Of Creation:
2 August 2021
Update Date:
10 May 2024
Content
The narration It is the story of a succession of imaginary or real events that happen in a certain place to one or more characters and are told from the point of view of a narrator. The story told may or may not be real, but it must have verisimilitude, that is, the story must be credible. For example: a novel, a short story or a chronicle.
See also: Narrative text
All narration has the following structure:
- Introduction. The story is raised and the conflict that will unleash a series of events is exposed.
- Knot. It is the most complex moment of the story, and it is when most of the events narrated take place.
- Outcome. The conflict raised in the introduction and developed throughout the story is resolved.
Narrative elements
- Plot. All the content of the narrative: the actions that occur during the story and that move the story to its end.
- Storyteller. The voice and angle from which it is told, and may or may not be part of the story.
- Weather. The duration of the narrative is its entirety, the historical time in which the story is situated and the amount of time that elapses between the different events.
- Place. The specific site (imaginary or real) where the story takes place
- Actions. The facts that make up the plot.
- Characters. Those who carry the story forward, and can be: protagonists (on whom the narration focuses), antagonists (oppose the protagonist), companions (accompany the protagonist). In addition, according to the level of importance they have within the story, they are differentiated into: main and secondary.
Narration examples
- Historical. They relate, in an objective and real way, a set of events that occurred in a specific place and time and that generated a series of political, economic, military or social transformations whose consequences are verified over the course of history. These stories are noted for their scientific rigor, use of technical language, impersonal tone, and use of quotations.
- Cinematographic. Through the combination of frames, the plot, the editing, the sound effects, the actors, the lighting, the shots and camera movements, a series of events that occur in a space and time are presented and that happen to one or more characters. The narrated story may or may not be real and the narration may have different purposes: informative, educational, aesthetic or entertaining, among others.
- Literary. They are narratives for aesthetic or entertainment purposes and their content may or may not be real. Some genres are the novel, the legend, the story, the fable, the dramaturgy, among others.
- Playful. The value of these stories is in the effect it produces on the recipient. In addition, it is not so much the content but the way in which the puzzles, tongue twisters and jokes are located.
- Journalistic. Its content is clearly real. They narrate novel events that are transcendent for a certain community. Its tone is objective and neutral: personal judgments, opinions and evaluations are avoided.
Follow with:
- Narrator in first, second and third person
- Literary text
