The phrase "narrative patterns" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use the phrase to describe how a story is crafted with recurring elements and motifs, such as in this example: "The author of the novel used narrative patterns to explore themes of loss and redemption."
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.
In such activities, learners must use skills and knowledge in mathematics (measurement, geometry and Cartesian plane to locate and move their characters, objects and scenery), Science and Technology (universe of hardware, transformations, etc)., Language Arts (narrative patterns, etc).
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.
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.
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.
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.
