NARRATIVE
TEXT
The telling
of a story or an account of a sequence of events. One of the four traditional
forms of composition (along with description, exposition, and persuasion).
Narration differs from exposition, which can also relate a sequence of events,
in that narration need not be factual and may be written from the perspective
of a character in the text.
1. Generic Structure of Narrative Text:
a. Orientation
: It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are
introduced.
b. Complication
: Where the problems in the story develops.
c. Resolution : Where
the problems in the story is solved.
Note:
The structure of narratives occurs in the text variously. A text may have only one complication and resolution, but another text may have more than one complication and resolution.
The structure of narratives occurs in the text variously. A text may have only one complication and resolution, but another text may have more than one complication and resolution.
2. The grammatical features of narratives
There are some grammatical features of narratives, those are:
1) Use of adjectives to build noun groups to describe the people, animals, or things in the story, such as …. a nice, diligent and kind-hearted man;
2) Use of time connectives and conjunctions to sequence events through time, such as however, although, later, then;
3) Use of adverbs and adverbial phrases to locate the particular events, such asonce upon a time, long time ago;
4) Use of past tenses, such as Aji Saka went to the kingdom, measured the size of the turban ….;
5) Use of action verbs to indicate the actions, such as fleed, explained, provided, smashed; and
6) Use of saying and thinking verbs to indicate what characters are feeling, thinking, or saying, such as told, realized, decided.
There are some grammatical features of narratives, those are:
1) Use of adjectives to build noun groups to describe the people, animals, or things in the story, such as …. a nice, diligent and kind-hearted man;
2) Use of time connectives and conjunctions to sequence events through time, such as however, although, later, then;
3) Use of adverbs and adverbial phrases to locate the particular events, such asonce upon a time, long time ago;
4) Use of past tenses, such as Aji Saka went to the kingdom, measured the size of the turban ….;
5) Use of action verbs to indicate the actions, such as fleed, explained, provided, smashed; and
6) Use of saying and thinking verbs to indicate what characters are feeling, thinking, or saying, such as told, realized, decided.
Now let's
read the following example of narrative text !
Story of Rabbit and Bear
Once upon a time, there lived as neighbours, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In
contrary, the bear is always clumsy ad could not use the arrow to good
advantage.
One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the
rabbit to take his bow and arrows and came with bear to the other side of the
hill. The rabbit was fearing to arouse the bear's anger so he could not refuse
it. He consented and went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the
hungry family. Indeed he shot and killed so many that there was lots of meat
left after the bear and his family had loaded themselves and packed all they
could carry home.
The bear was very gluttonous and did not want the
rabbit to get any of the meat. Th e rabbit could not even taste the blood from
the butchering as the bear would throw earth on the blood and dry it up. The
poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day's work.
The bear was the father of five children. The youngest
child was very kind to the rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear
always gave him an extra large piece of meat but the youngest child did not eat
it. He would take it outside with him and pretended to play ball with the meat.
He kicked toward the rabbit's house and when he got close to the door he would
give the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's
house. In this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal unknown to the papa
bear.
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