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Narrative Text 9th Meeting

Narrative text is an imaginative story designed to entertain readers, featuring a conflict and a resolution that can end happily or sadly. Its structure includes orientation, complication, resolution, and optionally re-orientation, while employing specific language features such as action verbs, adjectives, and dialogue. Various types of narrative texts include folklore, personal experiences, fairy tales, fables, legends, myths, romances, mysteries, and horror stories.

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Narrative Text 9th Meeting

Narrative text is an imaginative story designed to entertain readers, featuring a conflict and a resolution that can end happily or sadly. Its structure includes orientation, complication, resolution, and optionally re-orientation, while employing specific language features such as action verbs, adjectives, and dialogue. Various types of narrative texts include folklore, personal experiences, fairy tales, fables, legends, myths, romances, mysteries, and horror stories.

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Narrative Text

Mulyarti, S.Pd., M.Pd.


What is narrative Text
about?
• Narrative text about an imaginative story to
entertain and attract readers by presenting a story
or event that has a problem that causes conflict
and at the end of the story there is a resolution
that can be a happy ending or even a sad ending.

The purpose
The purpose of narrative text is to amuse or to entertain
the reader with a story.
The Generic Structure

•Orientation: the background of the story, describing the people


involved in the story, when and where the story took place

•Complication: when problems arise in the story

•Resolution: the crisis or problem is resolved, for better or for


worse.

•Re-Orientation: Optional (not required) may or may not exist.


Language Features
•Using part action verb: Climbed, Turned, Brought, etc.
• Using specific noun as pronoun of person, animal in the story.
Example: The king, the queen, etc.
• Using adjectives which are for noun phrase. Example: Long black,
hair, two red apples, etc.
• Using time connectives and Conjunctions to arrange the events.
Examples: Then, before, after, soon, etc.
• Using adverbs and adverbial phrase to show the location of events.
Examples: Here, in the mountain, ever after, etc.
• Using dialogue to elicit an emotional response from the reader.
• Using Past Tense
• Using of variety of simple, compound and complex sentences
Kinds of Narrative text
o Folklore / Folktale (Cerita Rakyat)
o Personal Experience (Pengalaman Pribadi)
o Fairy Tale (dongeng)
o Fable (Cerita hewan)
o Legend
o Myth (Mitos)
o Romance (Romansa)
o Mysteries (Misteri)
o Horror Stories (Cerita Horor)
example
Snow White
Orientation
Once upon a time there lived a little girl named snow white. She lived with her aunt and
uncle because her parents were died.
Complication
One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle
because they both wanted to go America and they didn’t have enough money to sake Snow
White.
Snow White did not want her Uncle and Aunt to do this, so she decided it would be best if
she ran away. The next morning she ran away from home when her Aunt and Uncle were
having breakfast. She ran away into the woods.
Resolution
Then she saw this little cottage she knocked but no one answered, so she went inside and
fell asleep.
Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There they
found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said,
“what is your name?” Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.” Doc, one of the dwarfs,
said, “If you wish, you may live here with us. “Snow White said, “Oh could I? Thank you.
“Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and finally Snow White and the 7 dwarfs

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