narrate vs recapitulate

narrate

verb
  • To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing. 

  • To give an account. 

recapitulate

verb
  • To summarize or repeat in concise form. 

  • (biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development. 

  • To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function). 

How often have the words narrate and recapitulate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )