Home › Glossary › Letter I

illustrated narrative

Form
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A verse narrative accompanied by images to reinforce story elements or meaning.

Detailed Definition
Illustrated narrative combines poetic text with visual images—drawings, photographs, or graphic elements—in which both modes contribute equally to storytelling; this hybrid form, seen in graphic poetry or artist’s books, challenges the primacy of language by making illustration integral to plot, mood, or character, creating a multimodal reading experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
A ballad illustrated with woodcuts showing knights and castles; William Blake’s Songs of Innocence with integrated images; A modern poem paired with narrative panels in a graphic novel; Concrete poetry coupled with image-story sequence
Additional Notes
A narrative poem that is accompanied by or relies heavily on visual illustrations, where the images are integral to the storytelling and thematic development; common in picture books or certain graphic novel forms.
Also Known As
illustrated tale pictorial narrative story with images visualized narrative Cantastoria
Skip to main content