"narrative pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can refer to the structure or order of events in a story. For example, "The novel follows a classic narrative pattern, with an introduction, rising action, climax, and conclusion."
The child learns to shape sounds into words and make boundaries around things; they tell stories and impose a narrative pattern on to chaos.
But ignoring the problem of memory doesn't make it go away, and omitting experiences that don't fit a certain narrative pattern doesn't mean they didn't happen.
In close up, collections that might have appeared simple, like a narrative pattern of a historic battle, turn out to be careful re-creations of the history of Cyprus.
This somewhat familiar narrative pattern is broken open, though, when Ajay's elder brother Birju, destined for great things, hits his head on the side of a swimming pool and is permanently brain damaged.
Already I've imposed a narrative pattern on a show that defies storytelling convention: the fact is that, for much of the first half, we don't understand what is going on.
It is a glitteringly confident narrative pattern, gesturing at the globalised, historical forces that govern individual lives; in some ways it is like a very, very much better version of Alejandro González Iñárritu's mediocre film Babel - there is some similar business with a handgun - but not as schematic and superficial.
By imposing narrative patterns on the seemingly infinite variety of human activity, they privilege plot over character.
The myths didn't give me narrative satisfaction like fairy stories, which seem to me to be stories about stories, to give their reader the pleasure of recognising endlessly repeated variations on the same narrative patterns.
Familiar movie narrative patterns enabled the public to get its mind around the action and even dominate it, though there are some who will claim this trivializes tragedy by cutting it into the neat shapes of entertainment.
One day, suddenly, a certain intuition starts visiting you, namely that you are not made primarily out of flesh anymore, but out of lines and rhymes, of rhetorical strategies and narrative patterns.
Oxford provided Faulkner with intimate access to a deeply conservative rural world, conscious of its past and remote from the urban-industrial mainstream, in terms of which he could work out the moral as well as narrative patterns of his work.
