The phrase "an example of narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific instance or illustration of a narrative, often in discussions about storytelling or literature.
Example: "In her essay, she provided an example of narrative that effectively captured the reader's attention and conveyed deep emotions."
Alternatives: "a case of narrative" or "an instance of narrative".
Show (or play) students an example of narrative nonfiction (select an essay from those Web sites curated below or from your own collection) and discuss it together.
And is it right to praise the opening sentence of "1984" ("It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking 13") as an example of narrative suspense, on the grounds that it "will not yet divulge" the fact that Winston Smith is, in the coming pages, doomed to be captured and brainwashed by Big Brother?
Theatrical interventions represent an example of narrative medicine (Greenhalgh and Hurwitz 1999) and a specific knowledge translation (KT) strategy (Eakin and Endicott 2006).
It even takes you to the moment when O'Brien decides that he has to walk away from 'The Tonight Show.'" Paul Schwartzman of The Washington Post wrote that it "is a great read and an example of narrative journalism's power when practiced by a reporter steeped in his subject matter".
It doesn't have to be avant-garde poetry; from the formalist direction, Robert McDowell's (now defunct) Story Line Press set an example of promoting narrative poetry of a high order.
Finally, the " From Usage to Evaluation Scenarios" section provides an example of how narrative framing techniques (a concept adapted from [ 12]) are used to perform high-fidelity interaction prototyping with naïve users.
As an example of the conversion from narrative criteria to computable criteria, we present the following two-step conversion procedure: Medical concepts expressed as narrative criteria are mapped onto entities in the data model and converted into entity-level criteria.
I might be reading some great piece by Peter Hessler, or Jon Lee Anderson, in the New Yorker; or some stellar example of narrative non-fiction in a book David Finkel's "The Good Soldiers," or David Gran's "The Lost City of Z," come to mind as some recent reads; or some stunning passage in a novel a few months ago I read Karl Marlantes' remarkable book on the Vietnam war, "Matterhorn".
And when she had an exhibition in 2010 at Hauser and Wirth's London location, the international magazine Art in America, said that the seven "uncanny" works were an example of her reputation for dysfunctional narrative.
Biograph films before 1903 were mostly actualities (documentary footage of actual persons, places and events), but Sherlock Holmes Baffled is an example of an early Biograph comedy narrative film, produced at the company's rooftop studio on Broadway in New York City.
1984 is an example of near-future science fiction – narratives that extrapolate from current technology and society to think about what life could be like in 10 years, or a year, or an hour.
