Hello!!! You are here!! How are you?

Well I think you are in a great condition...

What's our lesson now? Yes, you'll learn about narrative text. By the way, do you know what narrarive
text is??
Before I tell you the definition of narrative text, I want to ask you first.
Have you ever heard the story of Cinderella, Malin Kundang, Snow White, or maybe Kancil Nyolong
Timun??

Perhaps your father had told you those stories when you were child. You also read those stories in a
story book.
Those stories are interesting. You like to read those story to entertain yourself. You feel curios and
want to know what happened to your favourite character in the end of the story. You like the

character, the conflict, and the plot of the story. besides, you also can get moral values from those
stories. Although you know that the story does not really happen in our real life, you still like it.
Well, those stories belong to NARRATIVE TEXT. I think you have known what is narrative text.

Narrative text has a social function. The social function is to entertain or amuse the reader or listener.

Below is the example of narrative text.

Have you read the story? It tells about Snow White. However, the story is different with the story you
have known. The conflict is very simple, but you are still entertained, right?
Now, we'll discuss about the generic structure of narrative text. Commonly, there are three parts of
text in narrative. Those are ORIENTATION, COMPLICATION, and RESOLUTION. However some
narrative stories have a CODA. What are those?

ORIENTATION

It tells the audience about who is in the story, when the story is taking place and where the
action is happening.

COMPLICATION
It sets off a chain of events that influence what will happen in the story.

RESOLUTION
The characters finally sort out the complication.

CODA
It contains moral values.

Here the generic structure of Snow White

After discuss about the definition, social function, and generic structure of narrative, now you will
learn about language features of narrative.
LANGUAGE FEATURES OF NARRATIVE TEXT

Past tense (killed, drunk,etc)

Adverb of time (Once upun a time, one day, etc)

Time conjunction (when, the, suddenly, etc)

Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general. (Cinderella, Snow White,
Alibaba, etc)

Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked, etc)

Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White said,"My name is Snow White). The
direct speech uses present tense.

Well, you have known about the definition, social function, and generic structure, and language
structures of narrative. Do you understand?? Do my explanation answer your question? If you don't
understand the material, you can ask me in our meeting or send me e-mail
(devaniqua_pika@yahoo.co.id).
You can go to the reading, writing, listening, and speaking page to check your understanding..

Source :
Text Type 2
http://it.peperonity.com/go/sites/mview/narrative/14809960
http://bos-sulap.blogspot.com/2010/02/snow-white-narrative-text.html