Narrative text
Narrative text is a story that is not real.
This story is made up and exaggerated by the author. Narrative text aims to
entertain the reader and give a moral message or there is an implied message
that the author wants to convey to the reader
Characteristic of narrative text
1.
Use
the action verb in past tense
2.
Use
certain noun for personal pronouns
3.
Use
the adjective that made up the noun phrase
4.
Use
conjunction to order events
Structure of narrative text
1.
Orientation
Orientation contains an introduction
to the characters in the story, setting the time and place in the story
2.
Complication
Complications are the part of the
story where problems start to appear until they are at the peak of the problem.
This part involves the main character in the story
3.
Resolution
The resolution is the final part of
the story where the solution to the problem in the story begins to be found.
How the problem can solved and story has a happy ending or instead
4.
Re-orientation
This section usually contains the conclusion of
the story and also a moral message for the reader. Sometimes the author also
gives an implied message at the end of the story. But there is also a narrative
text that has no re-orientation
Type of narrative text
·
Fairy
tale
·
Mystery
·
Science
fiction
·
Romance
·
Horror
·
Fable
·
Slice
of life
·
History
·
Fantasy
·
Legend
·
Adventure
·
Drama
Narrative features
1.
Language
Narrative text use the descriptive
and figurative language which easy for the audience to understand
2.
Perspective
Narrative text can be written by
anyone’s perspective. But what is often used is the third person perspective
3.
Dialogue
In narrative text, use narration
from author and direct sentences that begin with a colon for first person
conversation
4.
Tense
Narrative text mostly uses the past tense, but
if there is a conversation, it can be combined with other tenses
Example of narrative text
Snow White
Orientation:
Once upon a time
there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her Aunt and Uncle
because her parents were dead
Complication:
One day she
heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because
they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take
Snow White. Snow White did not want her Uncle and Aunt to do this so she
decided it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away from
home when her Aunt and Uncle were having breakfast. She ran away into the
woods.
Resolution:
Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell asleep. Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, “what is your name?” Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.” Doc, one of the dwarfs, said, “If you wish, you may live here with us.” Snow White said, “Oh could I? Thank you.” Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and finally Snow White and the 7 dwarfs lived happily ever after
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