The phrase "narrative turning point" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant moment in a story where the direction or outcome changes.
Example: "The narrative turning point occurs when the protagonist discovers the truth about their past, leading to a dramatic shift in the story's trajectory."
Alternatives: "plot twist" or "story pivot".
This collection of short fiction, set mainly in the author's native England, uses narrative turning points to throw its characters -- whether pen pals, childhood friends or pompous authors -- into sharp relief.
This horrific information, imparted with effective restraint, becomes the turning point of the narrative -- as it was of Robbins's life.
At about the middle of each of the three Synoptic Gospels, two related episodes mark a turning point in the narrative: the Confession of Peter and the Transfiguration of Jesus.
As Variety's Sonia Saraiya noted, no lack of solid information "stopped media organizations, in the full flush of pre-election coverage, to make this some kind of 'October surprise' for the Clinton campaign, seizing on it as a turning point in the narrative of election 2016".
In France especially, the late 1990s also represented a turning point in a national narrative that had long avoided acknowledging the state's wartime collaboration with Nazi Germany.
The 1999 NATO air campaign against Serbia is often cited as a turning point in this sorry narrative.
"Opening Day!" That year, 2010, marked the turning point in Dickey's redemption narrative.
It will be a turning point in this parliament and that we are in a position to win this seat completely changes the narrative of the parliament".
The event serves as a turning point, his subsequent turn to philanthropy enabling him to reframe the closing of the business as 'a redemption narrative of self-renewal' through which he makes amends for job losses and reaffirms his self-concept as a pillar of the community (Ibarra and Barbulescu, 2010: 146).
Wood focuses on Franklin's personal development and constructs his narrative around various turning points in the life, almost like a bildungsroman.
