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Narrative Text:

Definition of Narrative Text

Narrative Text is one of 13 types of English text (genre) born from narration as well as
Recount Text, Anecdote Text, Spoof Text. Then, the definition of narrative text is an
imaginative story to entertain people

Perhaps you need to know that narrative text, in the writing and composition lecture is
usually called narration, which is one of type of text in a literary language. Usually, the
narrative text contains good fiction stories, non-fiction stories, animal stories (fable),
folktales, fairy tales, myths, legends etc. In a simple word everything about story is included
in narrative text.

Purpose of Narrative Text

The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.

Generic Structure of Narrative Text

# Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are
introduced.
# Complication : Where the problems in the story developed.
# Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved.
# Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story

Language Feature of Narrative Text

– Past tense (killed, drunk, etc.)


– Adverb of time (Once upon a time, one day, etc.)
– Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc.)
– Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general. (Cinderella, Snow
White, Alibaba, etc.)
– Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked, etc.)
– Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White said, ”My name is Snow White”).
The direct speech uses present tense.

Example:
True Friends
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”.

Moral of the Story – A true friend in need is a friend indeed.

Teman Sejati
Pada suatu hari di masa lau, ada dua orang berteman dekat yang berjalan melewati hutan
bersama-sama. Mereka tahu bahwa di hutan bisa saja terjadi sesuatu yang berbahaya setiap
saat. Oleh karena itu, dari awal mereka saling berjanji bahwa mereka akan selalu bersama-
sama meski dalam keadaan bahaya sekalipun.

Tiba-tiba, mereka melihat ada beruang besar yang semakin mendekat ke arah mereka.
Kemudian seketika salah satu dari mereka memanjat pohon terdekat. Tetapi sayangnya teman
yang satu lagi tidak tahu bagaimana caranya memanjat pohon. Jadi dia hanya terdorong oleh
akal sehatnya, kemudian ia berbaring di tanah, menahan napasnya, dan berpura-pura menjadi
orang yang sudah mati.

Kemudian beruang itu datang dan mendekati orang yang sedang berbaring di tanah tersebut.
Beruang itu pun mencium-cium telinganya, dan perlahan-lahan meninggalkan tempat tersebut
karena beruang tidak mau menyentuh makhluk yang sudah mati. Setelah itu, temannya yang
di pohon turun ke bawah dan bertanya kepada temannya yang berbaring di tanah itu, “Teman,
apa yang beruang bisikkan ke telingamu?”, si temannya itu menjawab, “Tadi beruang itu
mengatakan kepada saya untuk tidak percaya terhadap teman palsu”.

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