Narrative and Reading

Narrative

Narrative noun - A relating of events usually in the order in which they happened.

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Reading and narrative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reading" instead a noun "Narrative".

Reading noun - A presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view.

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Narrative and reading are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Narrative" instead a noun "Reading".

Nearby Words: read, reader, readable, readout, readability

good	good narrative	good reading
full	full narrative	full reading
clear	clear narrative	clear reading
common	common narrative	common reading
Other adjectives: brief, short, standard, proper, straight, popular, actual, main, interesting, dramatic, different, comic.

A common running gag in fanfic MSTings involves, whenever a Fate Worse Than Death is mentioned in the narrative, the riffers making a comment about reading whatever story they're currently reading.

Source: Cool and Unusual Punishment
The main narrative of The Prestige involves Alfred Borden reading Robert Angier's journal—and in this journal, Angier describes his own readings from Borden's journal.

Source: Nested Story
The Vampire Diaries went through a phase of this, after it (thankfully) dropped the device of Elena and Stefan reading from their diaries as a narrative lodestone.

Source: Artifact Title / Live-Action TV

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