narrative text

Narrative Text

​BY: PERDANA HK

​Have you ever heard these stories?

​Can you guess the titles?

​To entertain the readers/ listeners with an amusing story

​​Purpose

• Past tense

• Adverb of time

• Time conjunction

• Specific character.

• Action verbs.

• Direct speech.

​​Language Features

• Orientation

• Complication

• Resolution

• Re-orientation (optional)

Generic Structure

​Narrative Text

​stories of fairies

Fairytales

Mysteries

stories of mysterious cases to be solved

Folklores

myths: tells about unreal beliefs

legend: tells about some places based on stories

folktale: tells about imagination based stories

stories in which the figures are animals

Fables

​Kinds of Narrative Texts

stories of someone's journey/ adventures

Adventure

Science Fiction

stories about science or technology that is beyond the reality

Romance

stories about a couple's roman

stories of ghosts or spooky things

Horror

​Kinds of Narrative Texts

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What is the story about?

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How is the resolution of the story (sad or happy)?

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What type of narrative text do you think it is?

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What is your most favorite story? Why?

​Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.” ― T. Wright 

Thank you