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Narrative Text
Narrative Text
Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems.
Social Function: To entertain, to teach noble values, and to set an example.
Text Structure
Text Structure
- Orientation : person, time, and place
- Complication : where the problems in the story developed
- Resolution : where the problems in the story is solved
- Reorientation : lesson from the story
Language Features
Language Features
- Sentences in simple past tense, past continuous, and others that are relevant
- Vocabulary: related to characters, and setting in narrative text
- Connecting and telling adverbs
- Speech, stress, intonation, spelling, punctuation and handwriting
Kinds of Narrative Text
Legend
Legend
What is legend? A 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 conversational mode. Some define legend as folktale. The example of legend in narrative text are
Fable
Fable
What is fabel? A fabel is a short allegorical narrative making a moral point, traditionally by means of animal characters who speak and act like human beings. The example of fable in narrative text are:
Fairy Tale
Fairy Tale
What is fairy tale? According to Wikipedia, fairy tale is an English language term for a type of short narrative corresponding to the French phrase “conte de fée”. A fairy tale typically features such folkloric characters as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. The example of fairy tale in narrative text are:
Beauty and the beast
Myth
Myth
What is a myth? It is a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
Science Fiction
Science Fiction
What is science fiction? According to Basil Davenport. 1955, Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society. Science fiction is that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know. Some examples of science fiction are:
To the Moon from the Earth by Jules Verne
Starship Trooper by Robert Heinlein
A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Examples:
(Orientation)
Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her Aunt and Uncle because her parents were dead.
(Resolution)
One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White. (Major Complication)
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.
(Complication)
She was very tired and hungry.
(Resolution)
Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell asleep.
(Complication)
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’.
(Major Resolution)
Doc 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 Snow White and the 7 dwarfs lived happily ever after.
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