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narrator

The dramatic voice you hear while you watch the penguins' struggle to survive the harsh winter? That's not one of the penguins, it's the narrator.

The narrator is the person who tells the story. Usually, you find narrators in books and movies. In a fictional work, the narrator is a character who tells the story, which is different from the writer. Sometimes you have to decide if you trust the narrator's version of the story. If you want to be a narrator for a sports film, it might help to have a deep, gravelly voice.

DEFINITIONS OF: narrator

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n someone who tells a story

Synonyms:
storyteller, teller
Examples:
Aesop
Greek author of fables (circa 620-560 BC)
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen
German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797)
Types:
anecdotist, raconteur
a person skilled in telling anecdotes
fabulist
a person who tells or invents fables
griot
a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village
Type of:
speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer
someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
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