"Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience."
The use of non-verbal communication methods to narrate a story and convey its message, including plot development and characterization.
Body movements: The physical movements and gestures used to portray a character.
Facial expressions: The use of facial muscles to convey emotions and thoughts.
Voice modulation: Changing the tone, pitch, and volume of one's voice to convey emotions or to give life to different characters.
Characterization: Techniques used to create and portray believable characters.
Emotions: Ways to express emotions through physical and vocal means.
Storytelling: Various techniques to engage an audience and convey a narrative.
Acting techniques: Various methods and schools of thought on how to portray a character realistically.
Context: How the setting, time period, and culture play a role in storytelling through mime.
Props and costumes: Use of physical objects and clothing to add depth and nuance to a performance.
Collaboration: Working with other performers and directors to create a cohesive and effective performance.
First-person point of view: This type of narration is when the author uses “I” or “we” to tell the story from the perspective of a character in the story.
Third-person limited point of view: In this type of narration, the author uses “he,” “she” or “they” to tell the story while focusing on the thoughts and feelings of a single character.
Omniscient point of view: This type of narration allows the author to tell the story from the perspective of all the characters, including their thoughts and feelings.
Objective point of view: This is a type of narration where the author is an observer of the story, and they report what happens without offering their thoughts or feelings.
Stream of consciousness: This type of narration allows the author to show the thoughts of the character as they occur, often in a disjointed, unstructured way.
Second-person point of view: In this type of narration, the author uses “you” to address the reader directly, making the reader an active participant in the story.
Multiple narrators: This type of narration is when the story is told from the perspectives of several characters.
Unreliable narrator: This is a type of narration where the reader is given reasons to doubt the accuracy or sincerity of the narrator's account.
Dramatic monologue: This is a type of narration where the speaker addresses the audience as if they were a silent listener, often revealing their thoughts and feelings in the process.
Epistolary: This type of narration is carried out through letters, journal entries, or diary writing, often revealing the thoughts and feelings of the character in an intimate way.
"Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience."
"However, narration is merely optional in most other storytelling formats, such as films, plays, television shows, and video games, in which the story can be conveyed through other means, like dialogue between characters or visual action."
"Narration is a required element of all written stories (novels, short stories, poems, memoirs, etc.), presenting the story in its entirety."
"The narrative mode... encompasses the set of choices through which the creator of the story develops their narrator and narration."
"Narrative point of view, perspective, or voice: the choice of grammatical person used by the narrator to establish whether or not the narrator and the audience are participants in the story."
"Narrative tense: the choice of either the past or present grammatical tense to establish either the prior completion or current immediacy of the plot."
"Narrative technique: any of the various other methods chosen to help narrate a story, such as establishing the story's setting... developing characters, exploring themes... structuring the plot... employing certain linguistic styles, and using various other storytelling devices."
"Thus, narration includes both who tells the story and how the story is told."
"The narrator may be anonymous and unspecified, or a character appearing and participating within their own story."
"The author themself as a character."
"The narrator may merely relate the story to the audience without being involved in the plot."
"The narrator may have varied awareness of characters' thoughts and distant events."
"Some stories have multiple narrators to illustrate the storylines of various characters at various times, creating a story with a complex perspective."
"Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience."
"Narration is merely optional in most other storytelling formats, such as films, plays, television shows, and video games, in which the story can be conveyed through other means, like dialogue between characters or visual action."
"The set of choices through which the creator of the story develops their narrator and narration."
"The choice of either the past or present grammatical tense to establish either the prior completion or current immediacy of the plot."
"Narrative technique: any of the various other methods chosen to help narrate a story, such as establishing the story's setting... developing characters, exploring themes... structuring the plot... employing certain linguistic styles, and using various other storytelling devices."
"Some stories have multiple narrators to illustrate the storylines of various characters at various times, creating a story with a complex perspective." (Note: The above quotes have been selected and placed based on content relevance to each question, but some quotes have been slightly modified for conciseness and clarity.)