Narrative

A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). (It is worth noting that narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these.) The word derives from the Latin verb 'narrare' (to tell), which is derived from the adjective 'gnarus' (knowing or skilled). Narration (i.e., the process of presenting a narrative) is a rhetorical mode of discourse, broadly defined (and paralleling argumentation, description, and exposition), is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse. More narrowly defined, it is the fiction-writing mode[dubious – discuss] in which a narrator communicates directly to an audience. The school of literary criticism known as Russian formalism has applied methods that are more often used to analyze narrative fiction, to non-fictional texts such as political speeches.–Wikipedia