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narration| Means of communication that involves telling a story to others. It is likely to be less precisely factual than an explanation and contains devices of rhetoric (or figures of speech), including exaggeration, and the development of suspense. These are used to engage and entertain listeners, rather than simply to convey information. |
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| He appears by his modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination; he meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. You are aware, I suppose, that all mythology and poetry is a narration of events, either past, present, or to come? At one time he is found in Corinth, and at another in Athens, endeavouring, by the narration of some of his wise fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the administration of their respective rulers Periander and Pisistratus. |