Description vs. Narration

Description vs. Narration — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Description and Narration

Descriptionnoun

A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.

Narrationnoun

The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.

Descriptionnoun

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

Narrationnoun

That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.

Descriptionnoun

A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.

The zoo had no lions, tigers, or cats of any description.

Narrationnoun

(rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

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Descriptionnoun

(taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.

The type description of the fungus was written by a botanist.

Narrationnoun

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;

his narrative was interestingDisney's stories entertain adults as well as children

Descriptionnoun

a statement that represents something in words

Narrationnoun

the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events;

his narration was hesitant

Descriptionnoun

the act of describing something

Narrationnoun

(rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth

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Descriptionnoun

sort or variety;

every description of book was there