What is Narrative Text??

Definition of Narrative

A narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people

The Purpose of Narrrative Text

a.       To tells story which can amuse the reader.

b.      To intertain  

Example of Narrative

a.       Short story

b.      Novel

c.       Bedtime story

d.      Science fiction

e.       Historycal fiction

f.       Etc

Generic Structure of Narrative Text

      Orientation

Tells it about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.

      Complication

            sets off where the problems in the story deverloped.

      Sequence of events

            where the characters react to the complication.

      Resolution

Where the problems in the story is soived.

      Coda

            provides a comment or moral based on the story. (optional)

Language Feature

•      Simple past tense (drunk, ran, ate, went)

•      Specific character ( king, queen)

•      Descriptive words (lazy, smart, pretty)

•      Using temporal conjunction (after night, after morning, then, yesterday)

•      Verb processes (kept, ate, spoke, drank)

•      Adverbs dan Adverbial Phrase (here, in the mountain, happily ever after)

•      Adjectives (long black hair, two red apples)

Example of Narrative text

Snow White

Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her Aunt and Uncle because her parents were dead.

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.

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 Snow White and the 7 dwarfs lived happily ever after.

Generic structure:

Orientation= paragraph 1
Complication 1 = paragraph 2
Resolution 1= paragrap 3
Complication 2= paragrap 4
Resolution 2= paragrap 5