NARRATIVE TEXT

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•Definition Of Narrative TextA narrative text is an imaginativestory to entertain people.

•Purpose Of Narrative Text

to amuse or to entertain the reader with the story.

Generic Structure

1. Orientation

It is about the opening paragraph where the

characters of the story are introduced. (Who,

Where, When, What)

2. Complication

Where the problems in the story developed.

3. Resolution

Where the problems in the story is solved.

(happy ending or bad/sad ending)

Generic Structure of Narrative Text “Optional”

Other generic structures of the text:

• Evaluation : a step back to evaluate the

plight (the narrator’s viewpoint)

• Coda : Changes of the characters or

lesson/value of the story

• Re-orientation : the change which

happens to the participants and the

lessons we can learn from the story (moral

value).

Kind Of Narrative Text

Fable Myth Legend Folktales Fairy Tale

Sience Fiction Story.

Short Stories. Parables. Novels. Horror story.

Example of Narrative Text The Story of Hare

and Tortoise

There was once an arrogant hare who wanted to prove that he was better than

everybody else, so he choose the slowest animal in the county, the tortoise, and invited him

to a five mile race.

The tortoise accepted his challenge and trained hard for the event, while the hare

walked around boasting that he was going to humiliate the tortoise and make him look stupid.

The day of the race dawned. The tortoise set off at a slow and steady pace, while

the hare was dancing around laughing at him; other animals were laughing too, including the

rabbit, the badger, and even the little hedgehog.

The hare became exhausted from all his dancing around, so he decided to have a

nap. When he awoke, he realised that a few hours had passed and the tortoise was nowhere

to be seen. The hare panicked and ran the whole course as fast as he could, which was very

fast indeed.

As he reached the top of the final hill, he could see the finish line in the distance,

with the tortoise walking slowly across it, the victor.

Generic Structure Of the Story :1. Orientation

It clearly states that the participants are the hare and the tortoise who live

in once time.

2. Complication

From the second, third, and forth parragraphs, we see that the major

complication is set by the arogant hare. In the firs scene, hare and his

supporters tried to humiliate tortoise while in the same time the tortoise was

practicing hard. Because hare thought it was safe, he took a nap, but that

was his big mistake.

3. Resolution

The story of hare and tortoise is closed with the scene of tortoise winning

the race. It was a bed and sad ending for hare but it was the victory of

tortoise.

Language Features Of Narrative Text

• Use noun phrases. Ex : a beautiful princess, a cruel witch, and a huge temple.

• Use Adverbial of time or place. Ex : last year, two days ago, in the castle, and in a jungle.

• Use Simple Past Tense, Simple Past Continuous Tense, Simple Past Perfect Tense, Simple Past Perfect Continuous Tense, Simple Past Future Tense. Ex of simple past tense : A mouse was having a very bad time.

• Use Temporal conjunction and Temporal circumstances. Ex : Once upon a time.

• Use material process. Ex : fell asleep.

Moral Value

There are two main purposes of writing a narrative text

1. Entertaining the readers with an interesting story.

2. Teaching a certain moral lesson to the readers.

What we can catch for above narrative text in the story of

hare and tortoise is that we feel entertained with the fable

story, animals do like we do. The second thing we get the

point is that "fast" is not always winning but "slow" and

steady is winning in the end.

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