Narrative Text

​Anyone of you know what is a Narrative Text? Have you heard it? When? Where?

Pengertian Narrative Text

Narrative text adalah jenis text dalam Bahasa Inggris untuk menceritakan suatu cerita yang memiliki rangkaian peristiwa kronologis yang saling terhubung. Tujuan dari teks ini adalah untuk menghibur pembaca tentang suatu kisah atau cerita.

Tujuan Narrative Text

Tujuan dari teks ini adalah untuk menghibur pembaca tentang suatu kisah atau cerita.
Kenapa menghibur? Karena kita larut dalam cerita baik itu sedih, marah, senang dan berbagai macam emosi.

Ciri-ciri Narrative Text

Teks naratif memiliki awal, tengah, dan akhir, dengan peristiwa yang disusun secara kronologis. Mereka menggunakan bahasa deskriptif untuk menciptakan gambaran mental yang jelas tentang karakter, latar, dan peristiwa dalam cerita.

Kaedah Kebahasaan Narrative Text

• Menggunakan Action Verb dalam bentuk Past Tenses.

• Menggunakan Adverb of Time dalam bentuk kronologi dan kejadian yang berkaitan satu sama lainnya.

Kaedah Kebahasaan Narrative Text

• Menggunakan Adjective yang membentuk Noun Phrase.

• Menggunakan Noun Phrase tertentu untuk sebagai kata ganti orang.

• Menggunakan Conjunction untuk mengurutkan kejadian-kejadian.

Struktur Narrative Text

Struktur dari narrative text berfokus pada serangkaian tahapan yang diusulkan untuk membangun sebuah teks ini sendiri. Secara umum, terdapat empat tahapan dalam Narrative text, yaitu:

1. Orientation

Orientation atau biasa disebut dengan pendahuluan, berisi tentang siapa, kapan, di mana suatu cerita ditetapkan.
Biasa menggunakan keterangan waktu seperti:
Once upon a time ...
One day ...
Long time ago ...

2. Complication

Complication menceritakan awal masalah yang menyebabkan puncak masalah atau yang biasa disebut dengan klimaks. Bagian ini biasanya melibatkan karakter utama dari cerita tersebut.

3. Resolution

Bagian ini adalah akhir dari cerita atau berupa solusi dari masalah yang terjadi. Masalah dapat diselesaikan dapat menjadi lebih baik atau malah lebih buruk yang nantinya akan membuat cerita berakhir dengan bahagia atau sebaliknya.

4. Re-orientation

Re-orientation adalah penutup dari suatu cerita yang bersifat opsional. Re-orientation bisa berisi tentang pelajaran moral, saran atau pengajaran dari penulis.

Jenis-jenis Narrative Text

Narrative text bisa berbentuk imajiner atau pun semi faktual.
Berikut adalah contoh genre dari Narrative text:

Fairy tale Mystery Science fiction
Romance Horror Fable
Myth Legend Biography
etc

Multiple Choice

What is narrative text?

• A factual news

• A true experience story

• A text that describe specific things

• An imaginative story to entertain people

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How many general structure in the narative text ...

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

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What is resolution of the text?

• Where the problems in the story developed.

• Where the problems in the story is solved.

• Where the story is began.

• Where the story is ended.

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True or False:
Narrative stories have beginnings, middles, and ends?

• True
• False

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In a narrative, which of these describes the setting?

• The setting describes who you are writing about and the plot.

• The setting is the cause and effect of a story.

• The setting describes the settings's time and location based on the kind of story you're telling.

• The setting is how you plan to write your narrative.

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The following are story which include to Narrative text.

• Legend

• Short story

• Fairytale

• Report

• Fabel

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In a narrative, what is the plot/conflict in a narrative?

• When writing a plot decide on the conflict or problem for your character. As you write you will move your characters towards a resolution.

• When writing you will add details to make you character come alive.

• The plot will tell you who in your story.

• The plot will tells where your story will take place.

Long, long ago, when the gods and goddesses used to mingle in the affairs of mortals, there was a small kingdom on the slope of Mount Wayang in West Java. The King, named Sang Prabu, was a wise man. He had an only daughter, called Princess Teja Nirmala, who was famous for her beauty but she was not married. One day Sang Prabu made up his mind to settle the matter by a show of strength.

After that, Prince of Blambangan, named Raden Begawan had won the competition. Unfortunately, the wicked fairy, Princess Segara fell in love with Raden Begawan and used magic power to render him unconscious and he forgot his wedding. When Sang Prabu was searching, Raden Begawan saw him and soon realized that he had been enchanted by the wicked fairy. The fairy could not accept this, so she killed Raden Begawan. When Princess Teja Nirmala heard this, she was very sad. So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan.

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements is false about Sang Prabu?

• Sang Prabu was a father of his only daughter

• Sang Prabu was a king of a kingdom in West Java

• Sang Prabu was taken to Kahyangan by a wicked fairy.

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Why the wicked fairy did used her magic to make Raden Begawan unconscious?

• She didn’t like Raden Begawan

• She didn’t want Raden Prabu marry the princess

• She didn’t want the prince of Blambangan marry the princess.

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9. So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan.  (Paragraph 2) The word her in the sentence refers to…

• Prince Teja

• The prince of Blambangan

• Princess Nirmala

• The nice fairy

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So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan. (Paragraph 2) The word her in the sentence refers to…

• The wicked fairy

• The nice fairy

• Princess Nirmala.

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10. The similarity between fairy and human according to the text.

• The place they live

• Their life that is immortal

• The way they don’t feel a love

• The jealousy that they posses.

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The following are the characters in the story Beauty and The beast.

• Belle/ Beauty.

• Beast.

• Pinocchio

• Gepetto

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The Wolf and The Goat

A wolf saw a goat grazing at the edge of a high cliff. The wolf smacked his lips at the thought of a fine goat dinner.

“My dear friend,” said the wolf in his sweetest voice, “aren’t you afraid you will fall down from that cliff? Come down here and graze on this fine grass beside me on safe, level ground.”

“No, thank you,” said the goat.

“Well then,” said the wolf, “aren’t you cold up there in the wind? You would be warmer grazing down here beside me in this sheltered area.”

“No, Thank you,” said the goat.

“But the grass tastes better down here!” said the exasperated wolf,”Why dine alone?”

“My dear wolf,” the goat finally said, “are you quite sure that it is My dinner you are worrying about and not your own?”

What did the wolf ask when he saw the goat grazing at the edge of a high cliff?

• To be his friend

• To graze on the level ground.

• To climb up higher

• To be his dinner

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Cinderella's story is a kind of ... text.

• narrative

• recount

• procedure

• factual report

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… the Beast transformed into a handsome prince.

What is the synonym of the word transformed?

• Expand

• Grow

• Change

• Promise

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Once upon a time there were four little rabbits. Their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter. One morning they were allowed to play outside. Their mother reminded them not to go to Mr. McGregor’s garden because their father had an accident there.

Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail were good little rabbits. They went down the lane to pick blackberries. But Peter was naughty. He ran straight away to Mr. McGregor’s garden. He ate some lettuces, French beans, and radishes. Suddenly, he met Mr. McGregor. Peter was very frightened and rushed away as fast as he could. He lost a pair of shoes and a jacket while he was running. Peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home. During the evening, he was sick because he was so tired. He had to drink some medicine while three of his brother had bread, mild and blackberries for supper.

What can we learn from the story?

• Being naughty will make our life easier.

• Obeying our parents will make our life end.

• Obeying our parents. And we will get the best for our life.

• Being naughty will make our life happy.