What does narrative fiction means??

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What does narrative fiction means??

Answer 1

Narrative fiction simply means that there is a story (and that it is fiction, that is, made up.)

It is virtually impossible to tell a story without one or more narrators, but narrative in this sense mean "having a story" and is not a characterization of the type of narrator.

See this definition:

"Narration is the act of telling a sequence of events, often in chronological order. Alternatively, the term refers to any story, whether in prose or verse, involving events, characters, and what the characters say and do. A narrative is likewise the story or account itself. Some narrations are reportorial and historical, such as biographies, autobiographies, news stories, and historical accounts. In narrative fiction common to literature, the narrative is usually creative and imaginative rather than strictly factual, as evidenced in fairy tales, legends, novels, novelettes, short stories, and so on."

Answer 2

Narrative fiction is when the story is told from a person's point of view, and it is fictional, i.e. made up.  An example would be The Secret Life of Bees, which is fictional and narrated in the first person by the main character Lily Owens.  

Answer 3

There's a narrator telling the story. I can't think of an example, maybe the Princess Bride. With the old man narrating the whole story.