Narrative Text Grade X

Narrative Text

​English Grade X

​by : femy seniwegiasari, m.PD

Definition (Pengertian)

Narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people or a story is any report of a connected event, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, and/or in a sequence of moving pictures.

(Narrative text adalah suatu jenis teks yang berupa cerita khayalan, kisah nyata yang direkayasa, atau dongeng. Narrative text menceritakan suatu cerita yang memiliki rangkaian peristiwa kronologis yang saling terhubung.)

Purpose (Tujuan)

To amuse or to entertain to the reader about story.

(Tujuan dari narrative text adalah untuk menghibur pembacanya.)

Generic Structure

• Orientation: It is abouut the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced. (Set adegan dan memperkenalkan tokoh.)

• Complication: Where the problems in the story developed. (Munculnya konflik atau permasalahan)

• Resolution: Where the problem in the story is solved. (Konflik yang terjadi sudah bisa teratasi, untuk lebih baik/lebih buruk.)

• Reorientation/Coda (Optional): Lesson from the story. (Pesan atau amanat yang ingin disampaikan.)

  
  

Explanation

1. Dalam orientation teks tersebut menceritakan bahwa ada "two close friends" sebagai tokoh dan "forest" sebagai tempat atau set kejadian.

2. Dalam complication teks tersebut menceritakan bahwa kedua teman tersebut bertemu dengan beruang dan salah satu dari mereka memanjat pohon.

3. Dalam Resolution teks tersebut menceritakan tentang seorang beruang yang mendatangi salah satu tokoh yang ada di tanah dan akhirnya meninggalkannya karena telah dibisiki sesuatu.

4. Coda adalah amanat yang akan disampaikan oleh penulis kepada pembacanya

Type of Narrative Text

• Fiction: Imajinasi dan fantasi penulis jadi bukan dari suatu sejarah atau fakta yang ada. (Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland)

• Non-Fiction: Data yang nyata dan apa adanya tidak dilebih-lebihkan seperti dalam buku fiksi, jadi lebih memperhatikan gaya penulisan sesuai faedah/aturan yang berlaku. (Fenomena yang sedang terjadi)

• Fable: Cerita yang menceritakan kehidupan hewan yang berperilaku menyerupai manusia. (Si Kancil)

• Folktales: Cerita berdasarkan cerita cerita masa lalu orang jaman dahulu. Keaslian cerita ini sangat diragukan karena folktale diceritakan mulut kemulut tanpa adanya transkrip atau tulisan tertulis. (Malin Kundang)

• Fairytale : Cerita yang dibawakan adalah fantasi atau tidak nyata, karakter dalam cerita tersebut hanya karangan dan biasanya lokasi cerita tersebut berada di dunia lain atau area yang tidak nyata. (Angling Dharma dan Cinderella)

• Myth : Kurang lebih sama seperti folktale namun cerita dari myth/mitos terkadang dapat ditemukan di kehidupan moderen. Biasanya mitos menceritakan tentang makhluk makhluk yang belum diketahui keasliannya. (Bigfoot, Yeti)

• Legend : Cerita kombinasi dari folktale dan fairytale, disatu sisi legend adalah cerita rakyat yang dipadukan dengan elemen fantasi sehingga selain terdengar nyata namun juga ada susasana heroik dalam cerita tersebut. (viking dari norway beserta dewa2 mereka.)

Language Features

• Past Tense: Menggunakan kata kerja bentuk lampau (verb 2), misalnya went, ate, met, dan lain-lain.

• Time Conjunctions: however, although, later, then.

• Noun phrase: Kata benda (noun) digunakan sebagai kata ganti orang hewan, atau benda dalam cerita, misalnya stepmother, the dwarfs, carriage, dan lain-lain.

  
  

  
  

• Adverbs: Menerangkan tempat dan waktu kejadian seperti once upon a time, long time ago

• Action verbs: Menunjukkan Satu aksi seperti: stood, explained, smashed

• Saying and thinking verb: Kata kerja yang menunjukan pelaporan atau ujaran, misalnya said, told, thought, dan lain sebagainya.

Theme

• narratives have a life lesson to take away from the story

• they have a point, or a "so what" moment

Multiple Select

The beginning of a narrative starts to hint at a few things like:

• theme

• education

• conflict

• resolution

How to answer the question?

• Pahami materi terlebih dahulu.

• Bacalah materi sebelum mengerjakannya.

• Baca Pertanyaan dengan sangat teliti, jika tidak ingin membaca cerita maka baca soal dan cari isinya di dalam cerita.

• Untuk menemukan Main idea dalam teks kalian bisa mencari diawal kalimat atau akhir kalimat pada paragraf yang dituju.

• Carilah kata kunci dalam setiap pertanyaan untuk menemukan setiap jawaban.

• Untuk menemukan kesimpulan teks cobalah membaca setiap awal kalimat dalam paragraf buatlah satu dan jadikan kesimpulan.

• Untuk soal cerita biasanya pembuat soal membuatnya secara berurutan dengan paragraf, maka bacalah cerita perparagraf dengan teliti.

Answer the question!

Multiple Choice

A Story From The Farm Yard Two roosters were fighting fiercely to be the king of the farm yard. One finally gained advantage and the other surrendered.

The loosing rooster slunk away and hid itself in a quiet corner. The winner flew up to a high wall, flapped its wings and crowed its victory, as loud as it could.

Suddenly, an eagle came sailing through the air and carried it off, with its talons. The loosing rooster immediately came out of its corner and ruled the farm yard from then on.

What can we learn from the story?

• There's always a bigger enemy in this life

• Your friend can be your enemy

• Always grab an opportunity before you

• Don't be cocky when we have achieved our goal

Multiple Choice

Cinderella, Rapunzel, The Three Snake-Leaves, Rumpelstiltskin.

The title above is included ....

• Legend

• Mtyh

• Fairy Tale

• Fiction

SNOW WHITE

Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were dead.

One day she heard her uncle and aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White.

Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do that so she decided that it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away into the woods. She was very tired and hungry. Then she saw a little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, “What is your name?” Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.” Then, Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story. The dwarfs said, “If you want, you may live here with us.” Snow White answered, “Oh, could I? Thank you.”

Finally, Snow White and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.

Multiple Choice

When did Snow White run away to the woods?

• In the afternoon

• In the morning

• In the middle of night

• In the full moon

Multiple Choice

According to the text, before she ran away into the woods, why did Snow White live with her uncle and aunt?

• because she were afraid of the dwarfs

• because she ran away from a monster

• as a result of forcing attitude from them

• because her parents were dead

Multiple Choice

The organization of the text above is………….

• orientation, complication, resolution.

• abstract, orientatin, crisis, incident,coda

• thesis, argument: plot-elaboration, conclusion

• description, background events, sources

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of a narrative?

• to persuade or argue

• to inform or educate

• to share a lesson or message

Multiple Choice

True or false?

Narratives don't have to be organized at all. They're based on real events so the information can skip around as long as it happened.

• true

• false

Multiple Select

What's the best way to resolve the conflict and end a narrative? There may be more than one correct answer.

• Show what the characters have learned to support the theme.

• Repeat the beginning of the story like a research essay.

• Illustrate how the characters have changed.

• Leave the reader with a random quote to ponder.

Multiple Choice

True or false?

A fictional narrative is an absolutely true story based on the writer's life.

• true

• false

Open Ended

Use the words below to describe the picture.

valley; flows; steep; wooded; shining; flat; sticks out; still;

(What do you think will happen next? What will the man do?)

The writer make the story interesting by using:

• short sentences to describe what the man saw, thought and felt.

• questions to describe the man's thoughts.

• phrases with verb + -ing to describe actions and events.

Multiple Select

She sat in a corner of a café, ... (more than 1 option is possible).

• singing at the top of her voice.

• staring thoughtfully into the water.

• blocking my way out of the room.

• reading a book.

• gasping for breath.

Multiple Select

She run up the stairs, ... (more than 1 option is possible).

• singing at the top of her voice.

• staring thoughtfully into the water.

• blocking my way out of the room.

• reading a book.

• gasping for breath.

Multiple Select

She drove at top speed down the motorway, ... (more than 1 option is possible).

• singing at the top of her voice.

• staring thoughtfully into the water.

• blocking my way out of the room.

• reading a book.

• gasping for breath.

Multiple Select

He stood on the bridge, ... (more than 1 option is possible).

• singing at the top of her voice.

• staring thoughtfully into the water.

• blocking my way out of the room.

• reading a book.

• gasping for breath.

Multiple Select

A man stood in the doorway, ... (more than 1 option is possible).

• singing at the top of her voice.

• staring thoughtfully into the water.

• blocking my way out of the room.

• reading a book.

• gasping for breath.

Multiple Choice

Which tense does the writer use to tell the main event of the story?

• past simple

• past perfect

Multiple Choice

Which tense does the writer use to refer to an earlier event that explains what happened?

• past simple

• past perfect