Narrative Text

 

Narrative Text; Definition, Purposes, Generic Structures, Language Features

Hi everyone, I want to tell you about narrative text, what is narrative text?

Narrative is an imaginary story that aims to entertain the reader. Of course, the name of an imaginary story is not necessarily its existence because it could be just an imagination or a fictional story made by someone or a story made by a group of people that is proven to be true.

Definition of Narrative Text

A narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people (Narrative text is an imaginative story that aims to entertain people).

Generic Structure of Narrative Text

# Orientation: It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced. (Contains an introduction to the characters, where and when the story occurred (who or what, when and where)

# Complication: Where the problems in the story developed. (Problems arise / begin to occur and develop)

# Resolution: Where the problems in the story is solved. The problem is over, whether it's a “happy ending” or a bad “bad ending”.

# Coda / reorientation (optional) - lesson from the story.

Sometimes the generic structure of narrative text can contain: Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution and Reorientation. Although "Evaluation" and "Reorientation" are optional; can be added and may not. Evaluation contains an assessment / evaluation of the course of the story or conflict. Meanwhile, Reorientation contains the conclusion of the final content of the story.

Purpose of Narrative Text

– The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.

The Characteristics / Language Feature of Narrative Text

– Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)
– Adverb of time (Once upun a time, one day, etc)
– Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc)
– Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general. (Cinderella, Snow White, Alibaba, etc)
– Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked, etc)
– Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White said,”My name is Snow White). The direct speech uses present tense

Example of narrative text

The Ant and the Dove

One hot day, an ant was seeking for some water. After walking around for a moment, she came to a spring. To reach the spring, she had to climb up a blade of grass. While making her way up, she slipped and fell unintentionally into the water.

She could have sunk if a dove up a nearby tree had not seen her. Seeing that the ant was in trouble, the dove quickly put off a leaf from a tree and dropped it immediately into the water near the struggling ant. Then the ant moved towards the leaf and climbed up there. Soon it carried her safely to dry ground.

Not long after at that, there was a hunter nearby who was throwing out his net towards the dove, hoping to trap it in this way.

Guessing what he should do, the ant quickly bit him on the heel. Feeling the pain, the hunter dropped his net and the dove flew away quickly from this net.

The morality: One good turn deserves another.

Cinderella

Orientation
Once upon time, there was a beautiful girl called Cinderella. She lived with her stepsisters and stepmother. They were very bossy. She had to do all the housework.

Complication
One day an invitation to the ball came to the family. Her stepsisters did not let her go, so Cinderella was very sad. The stepsisters went to the ball without her.

Resolution
Fortunately, the good fairly came and helped her to get to the ball. At the ball, Cinderella danced with the prince. The prince felt in love with her then he married her. They live happily ever after.

Best Friends

Once upon a time,  there were six close friends who were walking through the forest together. They know that something dangerous can happen at any moment in the forest. So they promised each other that they would always be together even in danger.

Suddenly, they saw a large bear getting closer toward them. One of them climbed a nearby tree at once. But unfortunately the other one did not know how to climb up the tree. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground breathless and pretended to be a dead man.

The bear came near the one who was lying on the ground. It smelt in his ears, and slowly left the place because the bears do not want to touch the dead creatures. After that, the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend that was on the ground, "Friend, what did the bear whisper into your ears?" The other friend replied, "Just now the bear advised me not to believe a false friend."

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