A common approach is to add an anecdote in the middle of a narrative passage.

In fact, the entire narrative passage here runs more than seven pages, and not once does the author use dialogue or quotes.

But note, too, that the entire narrative passage, all seven pages, concerns much more than Sally and what happened to her.

We don't have to write a generic fiction story to use these techniques in a narrative passage and generate interest.

In time, of course, we'll get the answers, but through this narrative passage, the puzzle lingers on.

A number of narrative passages were cut from the final version of the album.

The three fragments are linked together by short narrative passages in prose.

But he also employs narrative passages, and sections of free verse.

Another brief but distinctive narrative passage is clearly associated with this 'August 1940' outline.

The narrative passages that introduce this question are found on pp.