Narrative Text

Narrative Text

MATERI PEMBELAJARAN

Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story that past tense. The purpose of the text is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners about the story.

The generic structure of Narrative text :
1. Orientation :
It set the scene and introduce the participants (it answers the question : who, when, what, and where).
2. Complication :
Tells the problems of the story and how the main characters solve them.
3. Resolution :
The crisis is revolved, for better or worse.
4. Re-orientation :
The ending of the story.
5. Evaluation :
The stepping back to evaluate the story or the moral message of the story

Linguistic features :
1. Use active verbs.
2. Use past tense.
3. Use conjunction.
4. The first person (I or We) or the third person (He, She, or They).
5. Use specific nouns.
6. Use adjective and adverbs.

Kind of Narrative Text :
1. Legend : Sangkuriang, Malin Kundang, etc.
2. Fable : Mousedeer and crocodile.
3. Fairy tale : Cinderella, Snow white, Pinocchio, The Wolf etc.
4. Science fiction.

Narrative Text

The Wolf

One day, the wolf was slaking his thirst at a stream, when he chanced to see a lamb, also drinking, at some distance down the stream.
Outraged he growled. "You are muddying my drinking water. Now I shall eat you."
The lamb protested "But Sir, How can I be muddying you drinking water?"
I am farther down stream than you are. The water is flowing from your part of the stream to where I am. Upstream or downstream, your drinking is muddying my water and I shall eat you!” So saying the wolf leaped upon the lamb and devoured him.

Exercise 1

A. Find the meaning of words below!

Wolf               : ..........                            Growl   : ..........
Slake               : ..........                            Stream : ..........
Thirst             : ..........                            Flow    : ..........
Lamb              : ..........                            Leap    : ..........
Muddy           : ..........                            Devour  : ..........

SNOW WHITE

Once upon a time, there lived a little, named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were died. One day she heard her aunt and uncle talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they wanted to go to America and they did not have enough money to take Snow White with them. Snow White did not want her uncle and aunt to do this. So she decided to run away.

The next morning she run away from home when her aunt and uncle were having breakfast, she run away into the wood. In the wood, she felt very tired and hungry. Then she saw this cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and felt asleep. Meanwhile seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There, they found Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs.

The dwarfs said; "What is your name?"
Snow White said; "My name is Snow White".

One of the dwarfs said; "If you wish, you may live here with us".
Snow White told the whole story about her. Then Snow white ad the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.

Exercise 2

Check your comprehension. Answer the questions below.
a. The writer uses what type the text?
b. To tell the plot, the writer uses?
c. What is the communicative purpose of the text?
d. Where did Snow white live before she stay in jungle?
e. How many dwarfes in the story?
f. Where she decide to leave the palace?
g. What is the Orientation of the story?
h. What is the Complication of the story?
i. What is the Resolution of the story?
j. What does her doing when the dwarves found her?

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Disalin oleh Endah Zulfaidah.