NARATIVE
A Narrative text is a text that tells a story. The purpose of this text is to amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or various experience in different ways. Narrative always deal with some problems which lead to the climax and then turn into a solution to the problem.
There are many types of Narrative:
Fairy stories, Mysteries, Science fiction, Adventures, Romances, Horror stories, Parables, Fables and moral tales, Myths, Legend, Historical narratives
The text structure of a narrative text:
Orientation
Sets the scene, introduces participant
It can be a paragraph, a picture or opening chapter in which the narrator tells the audience about who is in the story (the character), when the story is taking place, and where the action is happening.
Complication
A crisis arises
It triggers the chain of events that influences what will happen in the story.
Sequence of events
Where the characters react to the complication
Resolution
In which the characters finally solve the complication
Coda
It provides comment or moral value on what have been learned from the story (optional paragraph).
The language feature:
Normally past tense but it may change immediately when dialogues appear (into Present Tense or Future Tense)
Use of material, verbal, mental process, relational process
Use of descriptive language ( a big empty house, the room is very large)
Use of time connectors (then, finally, first, next, once upon time, etc.)
Dialogue (direct sentence may be included)
The story may be sad ending or happy ending
The use of thinking verbs, feeling verbs, verbs of senses
(She felt hungry, she thought she was clever, she smelt something burning)
The use of saying verbs
(say, tell, ask)
Contoh Narative text
Once upon a time there lived a group of mice under a tree in peace. However, a group of elephants crossing the jungle unknowingly destroyed the homes of all the rats. Many of them were even crushed to death.
Then the king of rats decided to approach the elephant king and request him to guide his herd through another route. On hearing the sad story, the elephant king apologized and agreed take another route. And so the lives of the rats were saved.
One day elephant-hunters came to the jungle and trapped a group of elephants in huge nets. Then the elephant king suddenly remembered the king of the rats. He summoned one of the elephants of his herd, which had not been trapped, to go asking for king of help from the kings of rats. The elephants went to the rat and told him about the trapped elephants.
The king of the rat immediately look his entire group of rats and they cut off the nets which had trapped the elephant’s herd. The elephant’s herd was totally set free. They danced with joy and thanked the rats.
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