Understanding Narrative Text

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What is narrative text?

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Narrative text is a text that tells a story, which can be imaginary, factual, or a combination of both.

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What is a legend in the context of narrative text?

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A legend is a story associated with people or a nation, partly true and partly imaginary about a particular person, event, place, or natural feature.

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What are the characteristics of narrative text?

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1. Tells a story about the past. 2. Uses nouns to replace animals, people, and objects. 3. Often well-known stories in society. 4. Contains elements like setting, theme, characters, atmosphere, conflict, and resolution. 5. Can be simple or complex sequels.

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What language features are commonly used in narrative text?

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1. Uses past tense verbs. 2. Includes adverbs of time. 3. Uses time conjunctions. 4. Features specific characters. 5. Contains action verbs. 6. May include direct speech. 7. Uses saying and thinking verbs.

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What is the orientation in the generic structure of narrative text?

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Orientation is the introductory paragraph that introduces the characters involved in the story, along with the setting and time.

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What happens in the complication part of a narrative text?

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The complication introduces the conflict that leads to the climax and then continues to the anti-climax.

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What is the resolution in a narrative text?

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The resolution is the concluding part of the story that contains the resolution of the conflict and often includes a moral message.