What's the difference between chronicle and narration?

Chronicle


Definition:

  • (n.) An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.
  • (n.) A narrative of events; a history; a record.
  • (n.) The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings.
  • (v. t.) To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
  • (2) By October the Chronicle's editors had announced a new series of articles, aimed at providing "a full and detailed description of the moral, intellectual, material, and physical condition of the industrial poor throughout England", and Mayhew was to be the Metropolitan Correspondent, filing regular reports from areas of London that might as well have been on the moon for all the notice most people took of them.
  • (3) My first novel began as a serial in the San Francisco Chronicle.
  • (4) The blog, which used to chronicle the discoveries OkCupid made by observing its users’ behaviour, has been mothballed for three years, since OkCupid was purchased by dating behemoth Match.com in February 2011.
  • (5) The Long War Journal website chronicled 44 green-on-blue attacks that year.
  • (6) The bad news is that we may also learn a lot more about him (particularly from copious investigations by the Times , chronicling the high jinks and low politics of Nigel and his followers in Strasbourg).
  • (7) The span of history chronicled within the Holocron covers 20,000 years of fictional events.
  • (8) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (9) This presentation includes many of the important pioneers and their contributions, as well as a chronicle of arthroscopy's most primitive roots and its transcendency into an accurate surgical instrument.
  • (10) This article chronicles the steps that were taken by the nursing staff in preparation for these unique patients.
  • (11) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
  • (12) He ran a restaurant after retirement, telling the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001 that he has “a hunger to get back in the game,” and so this trip to North Korea just may be the opportunity he’s been waiting for.
  • (13) The next day I began to draw, half-copying the woodcuts from the Chronicle, half exorcising my memory.
  • (14) Byzantine historians and chroniclers recorded events not only of national importance, but also of daily life.
  • (15) In his chronicle of centuries of economic exploitation, Galeano wrote: “The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret.
  • (16) In a report , she chronicled how a young man, deported after six years in the UK, was abducted upon returning to Kabul.
  • (17) We insist upon the priority of the relationship doctor-patient in the case of a chronicle affection, which is less uneasy for some and shameful for a great many.
  • (18) The majority of her books were successful fiction and included the 12-volume family sequence The Performers (1973-86) and the six-book sequence The Poppy Chronicles (1987-92).
  • (19) The Newcastle Evening Chronicle's front-page headline read "What a Joke".
  • (20) Our results chronicle the magnitude of metabolic response to spinal shock.

Narration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.
  • (n.) That which is related; the relation in words or writing of the particulars of any transaction or event, or of any series of transactions or events; story; history.
  • (n.) That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
  • (2) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
  • (3) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (4) Although the collection was one of Winehouse's major projects over the past year, it was also part of her narrative of relapse and decline.
  • (5) I still find that trying to weave together into a visual narrative and cutting together two pieces of a film – two different images.
  • (6) The Russian channel has the specific mission to counter the narrative of the so-called “mainstream media” and often does not even attempt balanced coverage of global events.
  • (7) Of course, students need to be aware there is a “Jewish story” and an “Arab story”, as Michael Davies’ article points out ( Education , 6 October), just as they need to be aware there are always different narratives in conflict situations, like colonialism.
  • (8) The review received more than 2,200 documents, the report said, to generate a “narrative” of events.
  • (9) Narratives of illness in medical records and case presentations in teaching hospitals say surprisingly little about an important matter: what patients understand and feel.
  • (10) A lot, without it being thrust down their throats.” The app will add more stories over time, with Moore saying American narrators will be included, and ultimately translations into other languages too.
  • (11) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
  • (12) Because her achievements chime with bigger narratives.
  • (13) Events had to be shoehorned into a wider narrative.
  • (14) You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point.
  • (15) Can Advanced Warfare shake up the series in narrative terms?
  • (16) All subjects expressed at least some story content, but only the right hemidecorticate narratives conveyed suggestion and implication as well as explicit statement.
  • (17) The old narrative is that of segregation, leading to confined form of space and time.
  • (18) This study examines the use of the co-temporal connectives when, while and as in the elicited narratives of 71 children between 4;10 and 11;11.
  • (19) He suggested it formed part of a political narrative, justifying Bo's removal because he and his associates were "bad" people.
  • (20) In its intransigence over Kashmir, the Indian state has, among other things, waged a narrative war, in which it tells itself and its citizens via servile media, that there is no dispute, that it’s an internal matter – and whatever troubles there are in the idyllic valley are the work of jihadis from Pakistan.