- Stories (emotional; 'literary')
- Conversational stories (everyday narratives)
- 'Great' narratives - Myths (nations; organizations; institutions; social groups; religion)
- cogni-emotional roller coaster; entertainment
- create individual and social identity
- education, propaganda, collective knowledge
- making sense of the world
legend, short story, anecdote and myth
myths...folktales...fables...novel...short story...fairytales...poem...
A personal narrative, an autobiography, a poem, a short story, a novel, or any literary work. It can also be used in fine art for pictoral illustrative narrations.
Some types of narratives are fable, myths, legend, fairytales, science fiction story, anecdote, short stories, parables, novels, and horror story. Honestly, most any type of literary work can be considered a narrative.
There are a number of different types of narrative.
The most commonly used ones are:
- Third person: The narrative is from a removed perspective, describing a story about others. There are also categories within the third person narrative.
- Third person omniscient: This is when the narrative expresses the thoughts, actions and emotions of every character.
- Third person limited omniscient: This is when the narrative is able to express the thoughts, actions and feelings of just one character.
- Third person limited: This is when the narrative is in the third person and only describes the action, not the internal thoughts and emotions of the characters.
- First person: This is when the narrative is told from the perspective of someone involved in the story, as in "I did this . . .", this is similar to third person limited omniscient, as we obviously get only the thoughts and emotions of the one person.
- First person omniscient (or limited omniscient): Rarely used. This is when the narrative is told from the perspective of a person inside the story and is able to express what all (or some) of the other characters are thinking and feeling.
- Second person (can also be omniscient or limited omniscient): Very rare, and kind of awkward. Usually used only for "choose your own adventure novels", this is when the narrative is essentially addressing the reader, as in "You go through the door" and "You steal an apple from a gremlin".
ome types of narratives are fable, myths, legend, fairytales, science fiction story, anecdote, short stories, parables, novels, and horror story.
A personal narrative, an autobiography, a poem, a short story, a novel, or any literary work. It can also be used in fine art for pictoral illustrative narrations.
There are many different types of narratives:
- historical
- adventure
- horror
- contemporary (e.g. personal experience)
- science-fiction
- mystery
- romantic
- fables
- legends and myths