narration

The act, process, or an instance of narrating.

Narrated material.

The art of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.

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.

Specifically In rhetoric, that part of an oration in which the speaker makes his statement of facts.