Narrative Genre Characteristics

The narrative genre is a literary expression made in prose; Through this literary device a story is told, which may well be real or fictitious, describing the events in order, over time (chronological) or sometimes in the logical order in which they should happen. It is used both in novels, stories, fables, myths, legends, and also in scientific, sports, and journalistic narration. It can be written (newspapers and magazines), or oral (cinema, radio and television), an example of this are radio journalistic reports, in which facts and events are related.

Characteristics of the narrative genre:

The narrative genre has the particularity that it describes the facts and events in the order that they happen, relating them to the places and circumstances of the plot and the action of the characters.

The narrative genre is also used in the same way in radio, television and cinema, as it happens in the news, where a reporter describes an event or when a commentator recounts an event sports.

This genre places the reader in the place, time and circumstances in which a story takes place, exposing the facts as they happen, that is, chronologically.

The narration is related by a narrator. The narrator can act as an entity alien to what is being narrated (third person), or be one of the characters, either the protagonist (first-person narration) or as one of the secondary characters (narration in second person).

Through narration an author can transmit ideas, events or facts to us, making us understand through the voice of the narrator, the background and background of the story, as well as nuances and details such as the personality of the characters, their factions or their psychology.

It has the characteristic of being one of the bases of the structure of stories and novels, since through this literary resource, they place the reader in the plot of the story. making more comprehensible to the reader the attitudes and physical and psychological defects of the characters, as well as the situations in which they are involved during the development of the plot. It is complemented by other literary genres such as dialogues and descriptions, the narration being the one that carries the rhythm and order of the story. In some cases the narrative voice becomes even omniscient, knowing the facts and actions that still do not occur within the plot, making the reader glimpse what will happen, even before expose it.