Definition of Narrative text.
Narrative text is a piece of text which tells a story and in doing so, to amuse, entertain or informs the reader or listener.
a) Short story
b) Novel
c) Bedtime story
d) Science fiction
e) Historical fiction, etc.
3. Generic Structure
a) Orientation : tells who is the story, when and where the story is happening.
b) Complication : sets off a chain of events that influences what will happen in the story.
c) Sequence of events : where the characters react to the complication.
d) Resolution : in which the characters finally solve the complication.
e) Coda : provides a comment or moral based on the story (optional).
4. Language feature
a) Focus on specific and usually and ividualized participants. ( a shepherd-boy)
b) Use of material process, behavioral, and verbal process.( Ran for….)
c) Use of temporal conjunction and temporal circumstance.
Type of conjunction
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Examples
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i. Time
ii. Result
iii. Contrast
iv. Reason
v. Purpose
vi. Manner
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After, before, since, while, when,as
So, so that
Although, though, even though, while
As, because, in case, for
So that, in order that
As, as if, as though
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d) The text emphasizes on the presence of the time order.
( long ago, once upon a time)
e) The text usually uses simple past tense. ( left, ran)
f) Use of verbal process. ( screamed)
EXAMPLE :
The Legend of Rawa Pening
Once upon a time, there was a little poor boy came into a liitle village. He was very hungry and weak. He knocked at every door and asked for some food, but nobody cared about him. Nobody wanted to help the litle boy.
Finally, a generous woman helped him. she gave him shelter and a meal.when the boy wanted to leave, this old woman gave him a "lesung", a big woden mortar for pounding rice. she reminded him, "please remember, if there is a flood you must save yourself. Use this "lesung" as a boat. The "lesung" was happy and thanked the old woman. The little boy continued his journey. while he was passing through the village, he saw many people gathering on the field. The boy came closer and saw a stick stuck in the ground. People challenged each other to pull out that stick. Everybody tried, but nobody succeeded. "Can I try ?" asked the little boy. the crowd laughed mockingly. The boy wanted to try his luck so he stepped forward and pulled out the stick. He could do it very easily. Every body was dumbfounded.
Suddenly, from the hole left by stick, water spouted out. It did not stop until it flooded the village. And no one was saved from the water except the little boy and the generous old woman who gave him shelter and meal. As she told him, he used the "lesung" as a boat and picked up the old woman. The whole village became a huge lake. It is now know as Rawa Pening Lake in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia.
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