what is meant by narrative?
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A narrative is a form of writing that tells a story with a beginning, middle, and an end.  \n\n\nSo any piece that you read or write that describes an event that has occurred is a narrative.
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That's a philosophical question.  In fact, it's probably one of the top-ten fundamental questions of philosophy that people have been pondering for millenia.  \n\nMy take on it is, it's like asking if a story is a physical object.  The media that it is stored on is certainly physical (a book, a cd, a neural network in a storyteller's mind...) but the story ITSELF is an abstract noun; something much less tangible.  \n\nI would say the same of the mind.  The mind certainly exists on a physical media, but the term "mind" also implies the intangible aspects of a set of neural networks... what it represents and means to that person, and to other people.  Mind is to brain as story is to book.
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Dictionary.com defines fiction as "the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama)."  \n\nIt also defines fiction as "the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form."\n\nWikipedia also states, "Essays, journals, documentaries, scientific papers, photographs, biographies, textbooks, blueprints, technical documentation, user manuals, diagrams and journalism are all common examples of non-fiction works, and fiction within any of these works is usually regarded as dishonest. \n\nThe sole difference seems to be that lyrical poetry is accompanied by music.  This originates from Ancient Greece, where lyrical poetry was accompanied by a lyre.  Both tell stories (as that is what a narrative is); however, lyrical poetry will have music accompanying it.
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In the Middle Ages ballads were how people talked about their own lives.  \n\nBallads are lyrical recordings of events of the past.  Ballads can be heroic, satirical, romantic, political, or catastrophic.  \n\nThey are stories written as poems and often set to music to be sung.\n\nThese links should help.
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autobiographical or non autobiographical\nfiction and non-fiction\nnarrative or passive
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What is the story about?  What does it teach us?
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First person:  The author uses "I" throughout the text and clearly intends to tell the story through the perspective of one character.\n\nThird omniscient:  The narrator is removed from the action, the narrator uses third-person pronouns (he, she, it) throughout and has knowledge of what is going on in everyone's mind.\n\nThird limited:  The narrator is not quite as far removed from the action, uses third-person pronouns, and does not have knowledge of what is going on in everyone's mind.\n\nFirst observer:  I'm not sure about this one--perhaps the narrator tells the story from a certain perspective but was not a direct party to the events he is retelling?
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in what context do you need these analogies?\nlike poetic or exact descriptions?
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Not I said the woman...what's the storyline? Sounds good tho.
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A folktale is a story with a moral or humorist theme handed down, usually within a family or group.\n\nFolklore is (supposedly) factual history handed down from previous generations.
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We are the story we tell.\nThe power of story always trumps the power of facts.\nNarrative (or storytelling) approaches to understanding human action have recently become more popular in several areas of psychology. Treating human thinking as instances of story elaboration offers numerous implications for many domains of psychological theory, research, and practice. For example, several instances of cultural diversity take on a different hue when viewed from a narrative perspective.
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Analyzing, to me, would mean that  you are actually thinking and writing about what the case study means and how, where and what it is applicable to. Describing, it seems, is basically just rewording the case study and not putting any extra thought into it beyond that.
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Literature works on different levels.  Apart form the literal meaning, there can be meanings by analogy.  For example, a story may have parallels in your life that have special meaning to you.  Most literature can say something about the general - although it is literally about the specific.  (A love story about Janet and John could contain truths about love in general, for example).\n\nLiterary works - Shakespeare's Macbeth for example - are praised for their insights into human life in general rather than what they tell us about the historical character of Macbeth in particular.  (That would be history, not literature, and judged according to how it actually concurs with the facts.)\n\nLiterature is different from other types of written discourse in that it is judged only on its internal logic and not on its relevance or consistency with the outside world.  Literature is generally regarded as a poetic construct.
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Non fiction is true, fiction is like a made up story\n\nExample:\n\nNonfiction: an encyclopedia\nFiction: Star wars
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Can you explain what do you mean?
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Yes it takes place.  \nYou want a narration?  You may not mean it that way, but the question sounds twisted.
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It seems that there could be a variety of answers. Poetry, prose, narrative verse, epics, romances, legends, lyrics, scholarly articles, etc.\n\nThese links should help you narrow it down based upon the work you have done in your course.  I hope this helps.