narrative text

collocation in English

meaningsofnarrativeandtext

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narrative
adjective
uk
/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/
us
/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
telling a story or describing a series ...
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text
noun
uk
/tekst/
us
/tekst/
the written words in a book, magazine, etc., not ...
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(Definition ofnarrativeandtextfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They also reflected a different form of reading habit toward thenarrativetext.
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They represent the fragmented poetic sentences instead of thenarrativetextof the play.
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The theme of anarrativetextis its main point or moral that is often implied between lines.
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These findings indicate that the global theme of anarrativetextis a fundamental component of text representation in reading.
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The images, usually concentrating on the figures' activities, therefore served as a visual supplement or as a summary to thenarrativetext.
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We have here a book of generous, almost encyclopaedic scope, yet controlled by anarrativetextthat is itself reluctant to engage with efficient cross-references.
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On the other hand, one may observe the occasional irrelevance between the printed images and the originalnarrativetextto which they supposedly refer.
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Thenarrativetextstructures are the plot and the setting.
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With anarrativetextstudents imagine what might happen next.
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In this atlas, however, the captions for each map are very detailed, and a longnarrativetextdescribes the events and circumstances hat led to the compilation of the maps.
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The similarities to the original source are extensive:narrativetextand general message of the gunfire.
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The two emotionally troubled people bond, with their future revealed in a traditionally-writtennarrativetext.
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The common structure or basic plan ofnarrativetextis known as the story grammar.
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Each student must prepare onenarrativetext, and be ready to read it aloud and answer questions about it.
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In the course, students will have to read a variety of text (e.g.narrativetext) and produce different types of writing (e.g. news reports).
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Examples of human readable documents include maps, field data sheets, operational schedules, and long term asset management plans withnarrativetext.
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Their work is based on the idea of art literature and it often has no other documentation as report than anarrativetextand very few pictures.
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