kind of text 'NARRATIVE TEXT'

NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative is a text focusing specific participants. Its social function is to tell stories or past events and entertain the readers.

There are many types of Narrative:

Fairy stories, Mysteries, Science fiction, Adventures, Romances, Horror stories, Parables, Fables and moral tales, Myths, Legend, Historical narratives

Generic Structure of Narrative

A narrative text consists of the following structure:
1. Orientation: Introducing the participants and informing the time and the place
2. Complication: Describing the rising crises which the participants have to do with
3. Resolution: Showing the way of participant to solve the crises, better or worse

The language feature:

1.      Normally past tense but it may change immediately when dialogues appear (into Present Tense or Future Tense)

2.      Use of material, verbal, mental process, relational process

3.      Use of descriptive language ( a big empty house, the room is very large)

4.      Use of time connectors (then, finally, first, next, once upon time, etc.)

5.      Dialogue (direct sentence may be included)

6.      The story may be sad ending or happy ending

7.      The use of thinking verbs, feeling verbs, verbs of senses
(She felt hungry, she thought she was clever, she smelt something burning)

8.      The use of saying verbs
(say, tell, ask)

Contoh narrative text

 
Once upon a time there lived a group of mice under a tree in peace. However, a group of elephants crossing the jungle unknowingly destroyed the homes of all the rats. Many of them were even crushed to death.
Then the king of rats decided to approach the elephant king and request him to guide his herd through another route. On hearing the sad story, the elephant king apologized and agreed take another route. And so the lives of the rats were saved.
One day elephant-hunters came to the jungle and trapped a group of elephants in huge nets. Then the elephant king suddenly remembered the king of the rats. He summoned one of the elephants of his herd, which had not been trapped, to go asking for king of help from the kings of rats. The elephants went to the rat and told him about the trapped elephants.
The king of the rat immediately look his entire group of rats and they cut off the nets which had trapped the elephant’s herd. The elephant’s herd was totally set free. They danced with joy and thanked the rats.