narrator
narrator
Definition
nar·ra·tor (nar′āt′ər, -ət-; na rāt′ər, nə-)
noun
- a person who relates a story or account
- a person who reads descriptive or narrative passages, as between scenes of a play
Etymology: L < narratus: see narrate
narrator
Synonyms
narrator
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- say: But for weeks, said the narrator, " we were afraid to venture outside our own doors.
- play: Matthew Rhys, who has appeared in BBC's ' The Lost World ' , plays the narrator, First Voice.
- do: Where does the narrator think the bird comes from?
- use: Here, Paul recommends using a narrator to help move the story along.
- have: This, a children's book, is the first novel to have an autistic narrator.
Converse of subject
- tell: The Broken Places is told by a third person narrator with access to Paul's thoughts.
Adjective modifier
- omniscient: And how much can we believe our omniscient narrator?
- Miltonic: The Miltonic narrator 's central strategy here is to empty himself of poetic agency.
- unreliable: It's the same device that any unreliable narrator employs.
- unnamed: When the unnamed narrator of Jeff Povey's The Serial Killers Club is attacked, he has no choice to defend himself.
- unseen: After he left radio he was the unseen narrator of the television series The Untouchables from 1959 until 1963.
- female: Do you have a preference for a male or female narrator?
Noun used with modifier
- first-person: Much of the discussion of the book has centered round Hornby's use of a female first-person narrator.
- person: The Broken Places is told by a third person narrator with access to Paul's thoughts.
- child: The child narrator explains the importance of names in Chinese culture, and how giving your child certain names can affect your fortune.
Possessives
- father: The narrator's father had worked in that yard for almost fifty years.
- voice: The expression of the narrator's voice helps pupils to understand idiomatic language.
Possessives
- film: Many of the main players in the Rutles career are featured in archive interviews or in discussion with the film's narrator.
Preposition: of
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