Narrative text is a text that is used for the purpose of entertaining or a musing, creating, stimulating emotions, motivating, guilding, and teaching the listeners and it usually deals with actual or vicious experience. Narrative text’s such as : fable (mouse dear and crocodile), legend folk tales (sangkuriang, Maling kundang), fair tale (cinderela, snow white, pinochio).
The Characteristics of Narrative text :
1. Past Tense
2. Dialogues
3. Lingking words that are connected with the time
4. The wring / it use the first person (I) and the third person (he, she, they).
5. The purpose is to enternain and to muse the readers.
The generic structure of narrative text :
1. Orientation
Is sets the scene and introduces the participants (it answes the questions – who, when, what, where).
2. Evaluation
a stepping back to evaluate the plight (the information about the narrator’s point of view) it is aptional.
3. Complication
A crisis or a problem arises. It usually in volvers the main characters.
4. Resolution
A solution the the problem (for better or worse) main characters find ways to solve the problem.
Some Important points in the story of narrative text are :
It uses temporal conjuction : Ex. Once upon a time, a long time ago, etc.
It uses simple past tense : Ex. There lived one day there etc.
contoh text narrative
the legend of karimunjava island
once upon a time in muria mountain, there lived the family of sunan muria. amir hasan or called as sunan nyamplungan is the son of sunan muria.
he was very spoiled by his mother. because of that, he became a naughty boy.
then his father, sunan muria asked him to study in kudus. he studied islamic religion to his uncle, sunan kudus. after some time, he became an obedient young man. sunan muria was very proud of him.
one day, sunan muria asked amir hasan to go to somewhere to spread islamic religion. his father asked him to go to an island that could be seen from muria mountain. it was on the west - north of jepara. this island seemed to be fade (kremun-kremun in javanese). and from that time, people called the island as karimunjava island.
amir hasan followed by his mate went to karimunjava island. they sailed to the island day and night and finally they reached the island. then they did what his father said. amir hasan and his people lived in the island ever
1. Past Tense
2. Dialogues
3. Lingking words that are connected with the time
4. The wring / it use the first person (I) and the third person (he, she, they).
5. The purpose is to enternain and to muse the readers.
The generic structure of narrative text :
1. Orientation
Is sets the scene and introduces the participants (it answes the questions – who, when, what, where).
2. Evaluation
a stepping back to evaluate the plight (the information about the narrator’s point of view) it is aptional.
3. Complication
A crisis or a problem arises. It usually in volvers the main characters.
4. Resolution
A solution the the problem (for better or worse) main characters find ways to solve the problem.
Some Important points in the story of narrative text are :
It uses temporal conjuction : Ex. Once upon a time, a long time ago, etc.
It uses simple past tense : Ex. There lived one day there etc.
contoh text narrative
the legend of karimunjava island
once upon a time in muria mountain, there lived the family of sunan muria. amir hasan or called as sunan nyamplungan is the son of sunan muria.
he was very spoiled by his mother. because of that, he became a naughty boy.
then his father, sunan muria asked him to study in kudus. he studied islamic religion to his uncle, sunan kudus. after some time, he became an obedient young man. sunan muria was very proud of him.
one day, sunan muria asked amir hasan to go to somewhere to spread islamic religion. his father asked him to go to an island that could be seen from muria mountain. it was on the west - north of jepara. this island seemed to be fade (kremun-kremun in javanese). and from that time, people called the island as karimunjava island.
amir hasan followed by his mate went to karimunjava island. they sailed to the island day and night and finally they reached the island. then they did what his father said. amir hasan and his people lived in the island ever
