

Thus, narration includes both who tells the story and how the story is told (for example, by using stream of consciousness or unreliable narration). Narrative technique: any of the various other methods chosen to help narrate a story, such as establishing the story's setting (location in time and space), developing characters, exploring themes (main ideas or topics), structuring the plot, intentionally expressing certain details but not others, following or subverting genre norms, and using various other storytelling devices and linguistic styles.


Narration is a required element of all written stories ( novels, short stories, poems, memoirs, etc.), presenting the story in its entirety. Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events. Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. For other uses, see Narrator (disambiguation).
