narration

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act, process, or an instance of narrating.
2. n. Narrated material.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The art of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
2. n. That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
3. n. Specifically In rhetoric, that part of an oration in which the speaker makes his statement of facts. The narration is to be distinguished from the proposition (prothesis) or statement of the subject. Besides the principal narration or narration proper (the diegesis), ancient rhetoricians distinguished subordinate forms of narration—the catadiegesis, epidiegesis, hypodiegesis, paradiegesis, and prodiegesis.
4. n. Synonyms Account, Relation, Narrative, etc. See account.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
2. n. That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
3. n. rhetoric That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; a recital of certain events, usually in chronological order; rehearsal.
2. 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; a narrative; story; history.
3. n. (Rhet.) That part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action, or simply states the facts connected with the subject.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
2. n. (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth
3. n. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program