Word Finder - narration

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The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.

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That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.

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That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

Jared into action by his words, she launched into her narration about the safari animals they were observing.

The narration of the folk tale made it more interesting.

Nevertheless his mode of narration is simple and direct.

Instead of limiting himself to a narration of their political events, he examined their economic relations, their constitutions, their financial systems, and thus was enabled to throw a new light on the development of the old world.

He has that power of concise and lucid narration, of terse reasoning, of persuasive appeal, which is required by the forensic speaker.

The rest of the film is told in flashbacks with calm and distinct voiceover narration by Allen.

Cynthia asked as Edith paused in her narration.

The fertile writer Paul Kovacs excels more particularly in humorous narration.

A voice-over narration can only be done in the Voice step.

The six part story will be released on two CDs and will feature narration from Frazer Hines.

As you put the freeze frames together add in some simple narration based on the scene descriptions above to help present the whole story.

Unfortunately, the narration is too self-consciously poetic, so judging by his gallery comments Frankie wouldn't think much of his own voiceover.

Proofs of his power in the sustained narration of stirring events are abundant; his treatment of the Pilgrimage of Grace, of the sea fight at St Helens and the repulse of the French invasion, and of the murder of Rizzio, are among the most conspicuous examples of it.

The narration of Herodotus is only a popular tradition which derives the origin of kingship from its judicial functions, considered as its principal and most beneficent aspect.

The prose style of Rome, as a vehicle for the continuous narration of events coloured by a rich and picturesque imagination and instinct with dignified emotion, attained its perfection in Livy.

The proved accuracy of detail elsewhere, as in his narration of events which he witnessed in company with St Paul, enhances our general estimation of his work.

In the first place, a very great part of what the poem tells about Beowulf himself is not presented in regular sequence, but by way of retrospective mention or narration.

This account is confirmed by Angiolello, a traveller who followed his countrymen Barbaro and Contarini to Persia; and from the two authorities combined may be gathered the further narration of the murder of Rustam and usurpation of the throne by a certain Ahmad, whose death, under torture, six months afterwards, made way for Alamut, the young son of Uasan.

His work constitutes the oldest commentary in the world on Genesis and part of Exodus, an enlarged Targum on these books, in which difficulties in the biblical narration are solved, gaps supplied, dogmatically offensive elements removed and the genuine spirit of later Judaism infused into the primitive history of the world.

You are given a lengthy description of the current situation (with fine narration) and told what you have to do.

Narration and dialog with other characters is flawless.

With flashbacks and narration from the films, you are immersed in story of the tragedy of Middle Earth and the quest to destroy the Ring of Power.

Narration is a Charlotte Mason inspired learning tool whereby kids offer back to you, in their own words, what's happening with a given piece of literature.

You can help make the narration more productive by asking your child specific questions about what happened.

The CM method of dictation and narration is an excellent way to cover all of these elements in one lesson.

The tour includes fun narration about Alcatraz's history and its famous criminals like Al Capone, Clyde Johnson and Robert "The Birdman" Stroud.

It's meant to present the facts of an issue or event by using narration, pictures, and interviews.

There is often narration or the scenes are cut together in such a way so as to create a plot.

At the time, Rowe was doing some narration work for the Discovery Channel as well.

Today, in addition to hosting this show, Rowe does a lot of narration for reality TV shows on the Discovery Channel including Deadliest Catch, American Chopper and American Hot Rod.

The format is different from many other similar shows in that there is no narration at all and no apparent commentary on the subject matter.

His power lies chiefly in the clear grasp of fact, in selection and synthesis, in the vivid narration of incident.

Along with this, there is a great deal of superfluous verbiage; and nowhere do we find a steady advance in the narration.

It was an ironic allusion to 19th century modes of narration.

Nelson Runger's clear, distinctive narration makes this fascinating audiobook accessible to listeners of all ages.

Pass and fail performances are filmed with accompanying narration to explain potential pitfalls.

We urge you to add narration in your own language.

You will need to wear headphones to hear the narration.

Would the option of audio narration be attractive to students who may learn better by " hearing " explanations along with the animation?

The final voice is a straightforward oral narration that tells the passage of Caterina's heart from a body organ to a historical artifact.

It includes information on audio description - additional narration added to dialog to explain what is happening on screen or stage.

Euripides ' play adapted as a dance drama in Indonesian style, with songs in the original Greek, and English narration.

Eureka Street is based on a novel anyway, as betrayed by the first episode's opening narration.

At playback, the the photo sequence is shown in synchronization with the voice narration, which is played by the voice server.

Alongside such mediated narrations there is also omniscient narration.

From the foregoing bare narration of events it is impossible to estimate the importance of these parties, or to understand theil bearing on subsequent Italian history.

While the consultation of authorities had been no less thorough, his style had become more free and less self-conscious; and the epic qualities of the theme were such as to call forth in the highest degree his powers of picturesque narration.

Monstrelet's own writings, dealing with the latter part of the Hundred Years' War, are valuable because they contain a large number of documents which are certainly, and reported speeches which are probably, authentic. The author, however, shows little power of narration; his work, although clear, is dull, and is strongly tinged with the pedantry of its century, the most pedantic in French history.

We must picture him as a professional storyteller equipped with a mass of miscellaneous reading, a fluent power of narration, and a ready faculty for quoting, or at a push improvising, verses.

Anna Paquin signed with an agency and took a few small offers, including several television commercials and the narration of an audio book.