fictional narrative

collocation in English

meaningsoffictionalandnarrative

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fictional
adjective
uk
/ˈfɪk.ʃən.əl/us
/ˈfɪk.ʃən.əl/
imaginary:
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narrative
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
a story or a description of a series ...
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(Definition offictionalandnarrativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Unlike in straight theatre, stand-up and punk both reject afictionalnarrativeframe and emphasize the here-andnow.
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As a response to the ' open prompt ' in thefictionalnarrativetask, the child told the story of his/her favourite film, television programme.
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In which case thisfictionalnarrativeis not quite so fictional as perhaps first imagined.
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However, according to instrumentalism, such terms are understood to belong to a largerfictionalnarrative that includes not only those things recognizably narrative in form but theological discourse as well.
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Each has a different focus in media arts: documentary,fictionalnarrativeand experimental.
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He praised the historical element of the storyline, and how the game used factual information in itsfictionalnarrative.
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The film is a hybrid documentary andfictionalnarrative.
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Each image was accompanied with afictionalnarrativewhich made it difficult to distinguish which was the live web camera.
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The statement provides an opening for afictionalnarrativewhile simultaneously implying an ominous, foreboding setting.
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Focusing the cultural context, it continuously shifts from documentary to drama, by means of afictionalnarrative.
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This static world is the point of departure for thefictionalnarrative.
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The movie used many tall tales from the book, woven into afictionalnarrative.
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His account of fictional narratives for women, for example, acknowledges a number of these.
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Expressions of cognition were found to be more closely associated with age differences in fictional narratives.
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Some of the resulting characters and events thus were composites of real characters and events that were designed to serve thefictionalnarrativewithout losing the historical flavor.
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This again may be an indication that personal and fictional narratives can take different developmental paths.
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Again and again, journalistic and fictional narratives depict the museum as the happy ending to a collectible's journey.
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The subsequent disclosure sparked controversy on the ethics of engaging uninformed visitors in an often emotional encounter with afictionalnarrativethat is initially presented as fact.
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Typically, each magazine consisted of several multi-page pictorials of tied-up women, often with afictionalnarrativeattached, and one fictional story of three or four pages in length.
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It is important to point out that fictional narratives are understood in this study as the retelling of a story based on imagined events.
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