narration

  1. Noun.  The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
  2. Noun.  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.
  3. Noun.  (rhetoric) That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

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