Collocations withnarrative
These are words often used in combination withnarrative.
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alternative narrative
Instead, he provides an alternative narrative of the movement's emergence.
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biblical narrative
The biblical narrative of suffering and hope, of loss and recovery, of alienation and reconciliation, is missing, leaving only the celebration of arrival.
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biographical narrative
Instead, he legitimizes his dream scenes by presenting a biographical narrative explaining the crime.
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coherent narrative
Similarly, this inability to voluntarily recollect most of the episode would explain victims' occasional inability to provide a coherent narrative account of the event.
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compelling narrative
It is a compelling narrative built on a sure-footed sense for empirical detail.
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complex narrative
The author then takes us through a familiar and complex narrative in a clear and authoritative manner.
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continuous narrative
No continuous narrative nor exposition of political philosophy is attempted by her.
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conventional narrative
Adopting this model of life lends to the obituary the taken-for-granted veracity of conventional narrative.
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detailed narrative
As in our first study, interviewers wrote detailed narrative descriptions for each interview.
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dominant narrative
Archaeological interpretations are very often confined to the dominant narrative imposed by the secular religion of nationalism.
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fictional narrative
Unlike in straight theatre, stand-up and punk both reject a fictional narrative frame and emphasize the here-andnow.
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first-person narrative
Interwoven with them is a faintly embarrassing first-person narrative expressing the author's intellectual doubts about whether and why his research is justified.
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grand narrative
We witness actions, confessions, and shards of a love story, but never long enough for them to coalesce into a grand narrative.
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historical narrative
He incorporates peasant customs, family life, and folktales in his historical narrative.
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linear narrative
In the end, though, neither of these kernels becomes a fully developed linear narrative.
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master narrative
And in turn, the disclosure and repetition of this master narrative systematically expunges from the novel the mysteries productive of both gossip and readerly interest.
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nonlinear narrative
The series uses nonlinear narrative, employing flashforwards, foreshadowing and red herring narration techniques.
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oral narrative
In both oral narrative and written tasks, the instructions strongly suggested that the participants should use past-tense forms.
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overall narrative
Changing the illustration, we might think about a novel and, in particular, the relation between its overall narrative and its components.
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personal narrative
In this report, the case study is presented through the student's personal narrative elicited through email communications, interview and compositions.
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spoken narrative
Tshibumba's acts of ' remembering the present ' in his images and spoken narrative also involved his confrontation with dangerous truths.
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third-person narrative
In fact, they most often occur within the anonymous, third-person narrative.
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traditional narrative
Rhythmic effects surface as different word order patterns in modern poetry and traditional narrative.
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visual narrative
The strategy employed to guide this emergent visual narrative is based on the belief that different combinations of content segments create relevant meaning through both similarity and through contrast.
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written narrative
The learners compare a written narrative and a transcript of a (non-authentic) oral narrative.
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