Sentence examples for a narrative function from inspiring English sources
Direct speech has a narrative function, but "Fatal North" has too much of it: putting words into people's mouths is a dangerous game, and it needs to be played artfully.
It's true that the flashbacks to Jesse's father being murdered in front of him serve a narrative function (we don't see who's pulling the trigger, but if the comics are any indication Jesse's family situation is about to get a lot more complicated).
These humble, domestic, familiar materials serve a narrative function as metaphoric signifiers bridging and interweaving personal trauma with public catastrophe.
Author Dorothy Hobson has discussed this in her book Soap Opera, suggesting that Dot, while providing a narrative function as a gossip, has in turn been the subject of other people's gossip, with her own problems, troubles and vulnerability.
For composer Austin Wintory, though, the idea of performing Journey's music alongside live gameplay came during the game's early stages of development: "While I was writing the score, it became clear that the game was going to be like a silent film, where the music would have a strong narrative function.
Lastly, in relation to retaining a 'narrative base', or, in fact, an ongoing narrative function, it is more than simply including examples of 'stories' amidst the other information on plants, animals, land features, seasons, etc.
But cyberspace also served a very specific narrative function for the author.
From this, Propp argues that the important thing about a person in a story is not their characteristics or personality, but their narrative function.
By Peter Schjeldahl Marshall's "Bang" (1994): an embrace of painting's age-old narrative function.
The gamble seems the greater as the poetry has no obvious narrative function, except to serve as a kind of authentication device, hints at a larger imagined world.
Several other films have deployed autistic characters in a similar way – as quasi-holy innocents whose narrative function is to inspire those around them to be better people.
