Narrative text

 

DEFINITION OF NARRATIVE TEXT

A narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people (teks narasi adalah cerita imaginatif yang bertujuan menghibur orang).

GENERIC STRUCTURE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

# Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.(berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana)

# Complication : Where the problems in the story developed. (Permasalahan muncul / mulai terjadi dan berkembang)

# Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved. Masalah selesai, secara baik “happy ending” ataupun buruk “bad ending”.

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

Kadangkala susunan (generic structure) narrative text bisa berisi: Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution dan Reorientation. Meski “Evaluation” dan “Reorientation” merupakan optional; bisa ditambahkan dan bisa tidak. Evaluation berisi penilaian/evaluasi terhadap jalannya cerita atau konflik. Sedangkan Reorientation berisi penyimpulan isi akhir cerita

PURPOSE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

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

THE CHARACTERISTICS 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.

Video :

example :

A kitten in the House

Once upon a time there was a small kitten who visited my house. The kitten was very tired and hungry. She went to different places to find food, so she made a big mess around the house.

First, she went into the cupboard in the big kitchen. After that she went to the small washing basket. The kitten's next stop was the study room. Here she perched on the top of the bookshelf. Next, she went to lounge and hid in the stereo. After visiting the lounge she went to the bathroom. In the bathroom she squirted all the toothpaste out. Then she hid in the toilet.

Finally, the kitten went to the bedroom and slept on the bed. She looked very cute when sleeping.