narrative pattern
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnarrativeandpattern
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narrative
adjective
uk/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
telling a story or describing a series ...
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pattern
noun
uk/ˈpæt.ən/us/ˈpæt̬.ɚn/
a particular way in which something is done, is organized, ...
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Thisnarrativepatternoutlined by the metaphor of a genetic text soon became a driving motivation for experimental research, providing a speculative framework.
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Seacole's description of her appearance fits thisnarrativepattern.
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He experimented with the new technique of so many characters revealing themselves at so many junctures simultaneously in a cobweb-likenarrativepattern.
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He told the reporters that he has only retained the original concept while thenarrativepatternis dealt with freshly.
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In this dataset, we find that the same victims who employ linear narratives also use two other narrative patterns.
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For example, in everyday dramas we repeatedly witness variation on the narrative patterns of introduction, complication, climax and resolution (a dynamic shape of interest).
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In the view of those critics (still all too common), narrative patterns were simply incompatible with and inappropriate in scientific disciplines.
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Instead, the data indicate that survivors prefer some combination of the three narrative patterns described above.
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The women fill their narrative turns with three distinct narrative patterns: (i) linear, temporally sequenced narratives; (ii) generic present and past narratives; and (iii) kernel narratives.
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Kermode has diagnosed modernist fiction as increasingly aware of the tenuous nature of its narrative patterns, operating out of the knowledge that our fictions are heuristic and dispensable.
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The author loves adopting classical narrative patterns while also modernizing and using them aesthetically with new stylistic features.
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