narrative voice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnarrativeandvoice
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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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voice
noun
uk/vɔɪs/us/vɔɪs/
the sounds that are made when people speak ...
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(Definition ofnarrativeandvoicefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnarrative voice
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The most striking argument emerges in her analysis ofnarrativevoice.
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Much the more determined sentimentalization of the spirituality of children comes from thenarrativevoice.
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Thenarrativevoicenumbers itself among the guilty, who mouth an all too familiar rhetoric of racial prejudice.
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The 'interpersonalnarrativevoice' (storytelling as the archetypal mode of communication) is seminal for a psychosocial approach to welfare organisations and practice; organisations must find the communicative space.
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Naturalization designates an integrative strategy of reception by which the textual and contextual inconsistencies may be traced back to anarrativevoiceand thus resolved.
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Calvino connects the king's fragmented self - suggested by the disorientatingnarrativevoice, symbolized by the politically divided castle - to this voice he can never possess.
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The strength of this book is exemplified by the change ofnarrativevoicebetween the first two chapters.
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On the level of narrative, suspicion asserts itself as an unreliable narration in which the text undermines the speech of thenarrativevoice.
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This category includes the individual voice, thenarrativevoice, and the authorial voice that reveals interiority and carves out distinctions between individual and collective bodies.
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The uneasy movement innarrativevoicefrom thirdperson omniscient to first person, for example, suggests a slippage in allegiance and perspective.
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In its awareness of its own subjective projection, thenarrativevoiceitself discredits the elision of perspective entailed in physiognomy.
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Sprout'snarrativevoiceis strong and realistic, and his observations are entertaining.
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Thenarrativevoiceis both first- and second-person; both are used to describe himself.
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Many scholars assume thenarrativevoiceis female.
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Along the way, parts of a backstory are revealed through anarrativevoice.
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Eugenides spent the first few years trying to establish thenarrativevoicefor his novel.
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It has an exotic locale, mystery, and anarrativevoicefull of humor and sadness.
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All three poems have a unique identity andnarrativevoicethat differs from the others.
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However, characters are also sometimes invented to provide thenarrativevoice.
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