Narrative Text

Narrative Text

Poll

Have you ever read a storybook?

• Yes

• No

Poll

What is the writer's purpose of making a storybook?

• to entertain the reader

• to tell stories or past events

• to inform something new to the reader

• to describe something

A Narrative Text is...

• a text which tells stories or past events.

• a text which function is to entertain the reader

Generic Structure of Narrative Text

• 1. Orientation: introducing the participants and informing the time and place

• 2. Complication: describing the rising crises/problems which the participants have to do with

• 3. Resolution: Showing the way of participants to solve the crises/problems, better or worse

Language Features of Narrative Text

• using past tense

• using adverb of time (once upon a time, one day, etc.)

• using temporal conjunction (before, after, as, when, while, until, since, etc.)

• using action verbs

• using direct speech (optional)

The Turtle and the Rabbit

One day a rabbit was boasting about how fast he could run. He was laughing at the turtle for being so slow.

Much to the rabbit’s surprise, the turtle challenged him to a race. The rabbit thought this was a good joke and accepted the challenge. The fox was to be the umpire of the race. As the race began, the rabbit raced way ahead of the turtle, just like everyone thought.

The rabbit got to the halfway point and could not see the turtle anywhere. He was hot and tired and decided to stop and take a short nap. All this time the turtle kept walking step by step by step. He never quit no matter how hot or tired he got. He just kept going.

However, the rabbit slept longer than he had thought and woke up. He could not see the turtle anywhere! He went at full speed to the finish line but found the turtle there waiting for him.

Generic Structure Analysis

• Orientation: paragraph 1

• Complication: paragraph 2-3

• Resolution: paragraph 4

Language Features Analysis

• past tense: ...a rabbit was boasting...; ...the turtle challenged him to a race

• adverb of time: one day

• temporal conjunction: as the race began...

• action verbs: raced, slept

source

• https://pakpuguh.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/1-narrative-text/

• http://britishcourse.com/narrative-text-definition-purposes-generic-structures-language-features.php

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