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'narrative chapter' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used to refer to a part of a longer story, novel, or other type of written work that is organized into individual, separate sections or chapters. For example: "This narrative chapter introduces a pivotal character in the story development."
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The main assassinations, unique set-pieces that punctuate the end of each narrative chapter, are some of the series' most diverse - Lambeth Asylum, Cannon Street Station, St Paul's - but are underpinned by this complete lack of finesse.
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Although Leviticus is basically a book of laws, it also contains some narrative (chapters 8 9, 10 1 7, 10 16 20, and 24:10–14).
The fact is, though, that in a book organised in self-contained narrative chapters, not every chapter conforms to this theme.
The dates and anecdotes, so often repeated to reporters and veterans' groups, have long since calcified into a fixed narrative, chapters in a hero's quest: the boyhood hunts that forged his self-sufficiency; the speedboat accident that taught him humility; the leap that tested his faith.
The narrative alternates chapter by chapter between his wife, Ruth, doing the laundry at home in Cambridge, and Mallory belaying on the slopes.
It's modern-day Melville, at least the non-narrative chapters that relate the whaling life through non-fictional accounts and facts.
The history of the cold war is not told in a linear, chronological narrative; each chapter covers a theme, like Sputnik or the Red Scare, and loops back to subjects covered earlier, from a different perspective, be it the death of Stalin or the rise of Fidel Castro.
A rich cast of secondary characters populate the narrative, each chapter being told from a different point of view, and it is testament to the distinctiveness of the voices O'Farrell creates that she is able to move the reader seamlessly between them.
DP You alternate narratives from chapter to chapter.
The novel The Wild Palms (1939) was again technically adventurous, with two distinct yet thematically counterpointed narratives alternating, chapter by chapter, throughout.
Who is the "I" who drops into the narrative in chapters called "After," driving across Germany with a duct-taped man in the trunk of his car?
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