Narrative Text is a text whose content is a story or a story about something. Examples of narrative text: folklore (folktale), animal story (fable), legend (legend), short stories (short story), and the like. In it there are conflicts / problems that peak followed by a settlement. The main function of this text is to a story or entertain readers.
The characteristics of narrative text :
1. Generic Structure :
* Orientation: provides an introduction to the characters, place and time of the story (who or what, when and where)
* Complication: Contains the height of the conflict / problem in the story. Complication A story may have more than one.
* Resolution: solving the problem. Could end up with joy (happy ending) could also end up with sadness (sad ending).
Note:
Sometimes also the order (generic structure): Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution and Reorientation. For "Evaluation" and "Reorientation" is optional; there can be no. Evaluation contains the assessment / evaluation of the course of the story or conflict. Reorientation containing contents inference while the ending.
2. Grammatical features using tenses "past"
3. Frequent use of conjunctive time (temporal conjunction), for example: once upon a time, one day, long time ago,
Example Of Narrative Text :
Ali Baba
Once upon a time
there were 40 cruel thieves who put their stolen money and treasures in a
cave. They went in the cave by saying ”Open Sesame” to the cave
entrance. A poor person, named Ali Baba saw them while they were doing
that, so he heard the opening word. After they left, he went toward the
cave and opened it. Suddenly he found a very large quantity of money and
golden treasures. He took some of it and went back home. After that he
became a rich man and his brother wanted to know how he became rich.
Ali Baba turned into
the richest man in his village. His evil brother was really jealous of
him, and wanted to know how he could get such a lot of money. Therefore,
when Ali Baba went to the cave again to take some more money, his
brother followed him. He saw everything, and decided to go back the next
day to take some money for himself. The next morning he found a lot of
money in the cave, and he wanted to take all of them. Unfortunately,
when he was busy carrying the money to his house, the thieves came. The
boss of the thieves asked him how he knew about the cave. He told
everything, but unluckily they killed him and went to Ali Baba’s house.
After finding Ali
Baba’s house, they made a plan to kill him the following night. Some of
the thieves hid in big jars, and the boss pretended that he was a
merchant who wanted to sell the jars to Ali Baba. Ali Baba who was a
kind man invited the boss of the thief to have lunch together.
After lunch they
took a rest. Luckily, the house maid went out of the house, and found
that there were thieves inside the jars. She finally boiled hot oil and
poured it into the jars to kill all of them. The boss of the thieves was
caught, and put into prison.
Ali Baba was saved from the danger, and he finally lived happily ever after with his maid who became his wife shortly after.
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