narrative
n. countablen. a story or a description of a series of events. You often hear this word when people talk about the specific way a story is told or the message it tries to send.
n. a spoken or written account of connected events. In contemporary usage, it frequently represents a particular way of explaining events that reflects a specific perspective or ideology.
The author weaves a thrilling narrative about a journey to Mars.
The politician tried to change the media narrative by focusing on his recent successes rather than his past mistakes.
The documentary challenges the dominant historical narrative by centering the voices of indigenous populations who were previously excluded from the official record.
Borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, nerrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō (“to narrate”).
Often modified by adjectives like 'dominant', 'false', or 'historical' to describe how a group perceives a set of events.