narration / narrative - WordReference Forums
网页2012年5月6日 · Narration usually involves someone telling the story or, within a story, reciting events. "In the recording, James's voice lent an authoritative air to the narration of the events." or "In Treasure Island, the hero, Jim, also takes the part of the narrator." The narrative is the actual story, "The book's complex narrative follows the fortunes ...
a larger narrative - WordReference Forums
网页Oct 5, 2018. #1. Text: For me, I feel like there is a larger narrative that goes beyond him (Kavanaugh) being on the Supreme Court for a lifetime. source: daily show. I think the background is about the alleged sexually assault by Kavanaugh, the the Supreme Court judge nominee, but I am quite confused about the phrase a larger narrative, so I ...
Through or throughout the story? | WordReference Forums
网页2018年4月25日 · Wisconsin. English - United States. Apr 25, 2018. #3. I don't think I would use either. "Through" risks sounding like "by means of" (as in "Through this story, children learn to be considerate of others"), and "throughout" sounds as though the characters are evolving at multiple points in the story. I would probably say something like "You can ...
Narrated time and narrative time | WordReference Forums
网页2010年2月2日 · Judging by a quick google, narrative/narrating/narration time is the time it takes to tell a story, while narrated time is the time that elapses in the story. I may have got this wrong, though. That would be my guess too. Kalys - it would help if you had some example sentences where you have read each word. C.
History/ story - WordReference Forums
网页2011年8月18日 · Turkish: We have two synonymous words for 'story': Hikâye /hɪkʲa:'je/ and Öykü /øjcy/. Etymlogy: Hikâye comes from Arabic « ḥikāya t حكاية ». It means To recite, to imitate a past event. Öykü is Turkish, comes from the verb: Öykünmek, which means to imitate. New uses/expressions: -> Herkesin bir hikâyesi var. (lit.
intradiegetic narrator / extradiegetic narrator - WordReference …
网页Dec 6, 2013. #1. The narrator, if personified, can have a range of different sorts of relationship with the actions and events described in a novel. He or she may be an ' intradiegetic narrator ' — an actor with a full part to play in the story told, or an observer of events in which he or she is personally uninvolved, or an ' extradiegetic ...
Narrative present: simple or progressive? - WordReference Forums
网页Serbian. Nov 1, 2014. #1. Hello everyone, I'm writing a travel story in the historical (narrative) present, and occasionally I switch between simple and progressive. I seem to do it unwittingly, noticing it only when I stop to read what I have written. Here's an example, with the change of tense emphasized:
Successful Story vs. Success Story - WordReference Forums
网页2013年9月26日 · I may be reading too much into it, but the title, as it stands, seems OK to me. If it is a comedy, it could be that the girl herself is not always successful and thus "The Successful Story of a Bright Girl" represents a play on words - as Elwintree says, the narrative is successfully accomplished but the girl is not always successful.
conditionals in a story narrated in past | WordReference Forums
网页2020年1月28日 · The second conditional is used for situations set in the present or future, or for timeless situations. The third conditional is used for situations set in the past. Timeless situations remain timeless, even if you are talking about them in the context of the past, so with a timeless situation, the if-clause of a second conditional does not ...
Spunto narrativo - WordReference Forums
网页Jan 15, 2017. #7. celiab said: Sure, but it's not that easy to understand really the contest (I barely do) It's like.. the main thing that happens in the background of the story. In this one for example, the main character solves a mistery while doing a cruise on the Nile river. The cruise on the Nile is what the writer calls: spunto narrativo.