A NARRATIVE TEXT

A narrative text is a text to ....

• tell the story in the past.

• tell the writer's experiences

• tell the good information

The social function of narrative text is to ....

• explain the story in the past

• tell the readers about particular things.

• give moral value to the readers

The paragraph in the narrative text uses ....

• simple present tense

• simple past tense

• simple past continues tense

The generic structures of narrative text are ....

• orientation-complication-resolution-coda

• orientation-events-reorientation

• orientation-complication-reorientation

Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih

Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful girl with her father, her stepmother, and her stepsister. One day, her father passed away. Her stepmother and stepsister treated her very bad whereas they used to love her before her father died. She had to do all the house work.

After reading the paragraph above, you can conclude that the paragraph belongs to ....

• orientation

• complication

• resolution

Unfortunately, Bawang Merah her stepsister knew about the goldfish. She caught the goldfish and gave it to her mom. After that, they cooked it and ate it. When Bawang Putih knew it, she took the bone and buried it. She felt very sad that she could not take care of her best friend.

After reading the paragraph above, you can conclude that the paragraph belongs to ....

• orientation

• complication

• resolution

Several days later, grew a beautiful tree on the burial. Surprisingly, a Prince came to see it. he needed the tree to make his father well again. When he asked who own the tree, Bawang Merah said that it was hers. However, when she wanted to pull the tree, she could not do it. Even everyone could not do it, but Bawang Putih. Bawang Putih pull the tree easily and gave it to the Prince.

After reading the paragraph above, you can conclude that the paragraph belongs to ....

• orientation

• complication

• resolution

Once upon a time, there were two close friends who were walking through the forest together. They knew that anything dangerous can happen any time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would always be together in any case of danger.

Suddenly, they saw a large bear getting closer toward them. One of them climbed a nearby tree at once. But unfortunately the other one did not know how to climb up the tree. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground breathless and pretended to be a dead man.

The bear came near the one who was lying on the ground. It smelt in his ears, and slowly left the place because the bears do not want to touch the dead creatures. After that, the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend that was on the ground, “Friend, what did the bear whisper into your ears?” The other friend replied, “Just now the bear advised me not to believe a false friend”.

The best title for the text above is ....

• Imaginative Friend

• True Friend

• False Friend

Once upon a time, there were two close friends who were walking through the forest together. They knew that anything dangerous can happen any time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would always be together in any case of danger.

Suddenly, they saw a large bear getting closer toward them. One of them climbed a nearby tree at once. But unfortunately the other one did not know how to climb up the tree. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground breathless and pretended to be a dead man.

The bear came near the one who was lying on the ground. It smelt in his ears, and slowly left the place because the bears do not want to touch the dead creatures. After that, the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend that was on the ground, “Friend, what did the bear whisper into your ears?” The other friend replied, “Just now the bear advised me not to believe a false friend”.

We can infer that the moral value of the story above is ....

• A best friend cannot be replaced.

• True Friend never lies.

• A true friend in need is a friend indeed.

“Why, I know at least a hundred tricks to get away from our mutual enemies, the dogs,” she said.

The sentence above is one of ... example.

• direct speech

• indirect speech

• negative speech