NARATIVE TEXT

Definition of Narative Text :

Narative text is a text that is uses for the purpose of entertaining or amusing, creating, stimulating amotions, motivating, guilding and teaching the readers or the listeners and it usually deals with actual or vacious axperience .

=) Narative text such as : Fable (mouse deer and crocodile), lagend / folk tables (sangkuriang, malin kundang), fairy tale (Cinderella, snow white, pinochio) .

Complication: it is about the conflict or the big problem of the story. Complication is the part of the story in which there is a conflict among the characters of the story (it is possible to make more than one conflict in a complication), and it is the climax of the story (the big problem in the story). A story can have more than one complication.

Resolution: it is the solution of the problem. It can be a happy or sad ending. In Resolution, the solution or the way out of the conflict/ the big problem must be written.

Coda: it is the change of one of the character or two, or the meaning of the story that can be caught as a moral value of life.

The Generic of Narative Text  :

1) Orientation : It sets the scane and introduces the participants (it answer 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's optional .

3) Complications : a crisis or a problem arises. It usually involves the main characters .

4) Resulation : a solution to the problem (for better or worse) .

5) Resolution : The crisis is revolved, for better or worse .

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

Kinds of Narrative Text

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

• Folklore