"ആഖ്യാനം" എന്ന വാക്കിന്റെ നിഘണ്ടു നിർവചനം ഇതാണ്:
ലളിതമായി പറഞ്ഞാൽ, ഒരു വിവരണം സംഭവങ്ങളുടെ വിവരണമോ പുനരാഖ്യാനമോ ആണ്. അനുഭവങ്ങൾ, യഥാർത്ഥമോ ഭാവനയോ ആകട്ടെ. ഇതിന് കഥയെ തന്നെ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ എഴുത്തിലൂടെയോ സംസാരത്തിലൂടെയോ കഥ പറയുന്ന പ്രവൃത്തിയെ സൂചിപ്പിക്കാൻ കഴിയും.
1. He thought of dumping her from the narrative and coming up with a more compelling sleuth, but with Paula he felt comfortable.
2. Between us we launch into partial explanations and a narrative quickly grows in the place of the truth, a car accident, a misplaced note, and a rough week in Tenesar with a dog on the prowl take up the centre of it all.
3. Fogg heard this narrative coldly, without a word and then furnished his man with funds necessary to obtain clothing more in harmony with his position.
4. When words were first recorded into writing they were not narrative accounts, rules, or laws, but great poems, such as Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and the biblical Psalms that spoke of stories and wisdom.
5. Now this was a circumstance the more to be observed, as Pfaall, with three companions, had actually disappeared from Rotterdam about five years before, in a very sudden and unaccountable manner, and up to the date of this narrative all attempts had failed of obtaining any intelligence concerning them whatsoever.
6. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
7. The narrative which follows will appear to the reader somewhat in the light of a commentary upon the propositions just advanced.
8. He concluded a somewhat droll speech with a compliment upon what he was pleased to term the tact of Dupin, and made him a direct, and certainly a liberal proposition, the precise nature of which I do not feel myself at liberty to disclose, but which has no bearing upon the proper subject of my narrative.
9. But let it not for a moment be supposed that, in proceeding with the sad narrative of Marie from the epoch just mentioned, and in tracing to its dénouement the mystery which enshrouded her, it is my covert design to hint at an extension of the parallel, or even to suggest that the measures adopted in Paris for the discovery of the assassin of a grisette, or measures founded in any similar ratiocination, would produce any similar result.
10. from which this narrative is compiled was despatched from Charleston, the party were still at Fort Moultrie.