Narrative Text

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DEFINITION OF

NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is a kind of the text that retell the story in the past.

The purpose or social function or communicative target is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners

about the story.

GENERIC STRUCTURE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

1.Orientation: the Recognition of the setting ( background of the story) : figure, time, and place.

2.Complication: the conflict development of the story.3.Resolution: the solving of the conflict.

4.Evaluation: the discussion of moral values or philosophy that can be drawn from the story.

This part exists especially in the more complex narrative.5.Reorientation or Coda:

the change that happened to the characters of the story.

LEXICO GRAMMATICAL FEATURES

Characters introduction : there was, once upon a time, etc.

Past tenses : all verbs used except in direct statements.

Mental Process: wanted, felt, find out, like, etc.

Cause and effect conjunction: so, so that, etc.

Temporal Conjunction: one evening, suddenly, then, etc.

Action Process: came, made, washed, etc.

Kind Of Narrative

Text

Fairy TaleA fairy tale typically features such

folkloric characters as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes,

and usually magic or enchantments.

Cinderella Pinocchio

Aladdin

Malin Kundang Sangkuriang

Legend

legend is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history. Typically, a legend is a short, traditional and historicized narrative performed in a converstional mode. Some define legend as folktale.

Winny The Pooh Tortoise and

Hare

Ice Age

Fable

Fable is a story, often about animals, that points out some aspect of human behaviour and often has a moral

attached to it.

Science Fiction

Science fiction is that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in

the world we know.

To the Moon from the Earth by Jules Verne

Starship Trooper by Robert Heinlein

A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

More of Kind of Narrative Text

AdventureReal-lifeMythHorror

MisteryComedyRomance Etc

Narrative text, since it told a story, is dominantlyconstructed in past tenses. It is logic because every story

happened in the past time.

Grammar Used

Past Tense Used :

Simple Past Past Continuous

Past Perfect Past Future

Continuous Past Perfect

Continuous

SIMPLE PAST

Tense

Using Verb

Simple Past Tense is the past tense of modern English . It is used

to describe events in the past. Simple past sometimes called the

Preterite.

To retell the past story (Narrative Text), we must use the past tense. Except when we

will say a direct sentence at the story.

What Is Verb?The verb is perhaps the most important part of the sentence. A verb or

compound verb asserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being. The verb or

compound verb is the critical element of the predicate of a sentence.

Example :

Dracula bites his victims on the neck.The verb "bites" describes the action Dracula takes.

In early October, Giselle will plant twenty tulip bulbs.Here the compound verb "will plant" describes an action that will take place in the future.

The simple past form:

1. AFFIRMATIVE

Subject + Verb 2 + Object + Complement

Example of the text :I went to Japan yesterday.I walked to school everyday.

2. NEGATIVE

Subject + did not/ didn’t+ Verb 1 +Object +

Complement

Example:I did not go to Japan yesterday.We did not have time to visit the Eiffel Tower.

3. INTERROGATIVE

Did + Verb 1 + Object +complement?

Example :What did you do ?Did you have a bicycle?

Example of Narrative

Text

ANALISYS OF THE TEXT

“LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD”

Affirmative Simple past using verb

S + VERB.2 + Object + Complement

Lexico grammatical

Lexicogrammatical

Affirmative Simple past using verb

S + VERB.2 + Object + Complement

Lexicogrammatical

Direct Speech

Direct Speech

Direct Speech

Direct Speech

Affirmative Simple past using verb

S + VERB.2 + Object + Complement

FINISHED

•Narrative text is a text to retell events in the past,

that purpose to entertain.

•The Generic structure is Orientation, Complication,

Resolution, Evaluation, and Reorientation or coda.

•The Lexico grammatical usually use, once upon a

time, suddenly, so, etc.

•To make a narrative text, we must use past tense.

•The formula of simple past using verb is :

(+) S+V2+O+C …. (--) S+DIDN’T+O+C… (?) DID+S+O+C…

Conclusion

References :• http://www.info-yazid.com/2011/09/

proposal-skripsi-bahasa-inggris.html

• http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/verbs.

• http://www.youtube.com/user/BritishCouncilLEKid

• Bahasainggris.ppt from MAMPU MEDIA production 2006.

Created By

X RSBI 2

Senior High School 12 Pekanbaru

2011/2012

ENGLISH SUBJECT TEACHER

MR. SISWANDI

Thanks for Your Attention