Narrative Text

A.    Definition of narrative text

Narrative text is a kind of text which retell the story that happened in the past.

B.     The purpose of narrative text

The purpose of narrative text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with the story.

C.    The generic structure of narrative text

Orientation    : it is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.

Complication : where the problems in the story developed.

Resolution      : where the problems in the story is solved.

D.    The language features of Narrative are:

a.       Focus on specific and individualized participants.

b.      Using material process (action verb): arrived, ate, went, etc.

c.       Using some behavioral and verbal processes (saying verb): asked, said, told, etc.

d.      Using temporal conjunction and circumstances: then, one day, when, a long, etc.

e.      Using nouns: tree, road, mouse, etc.

f.        Using pronouns: they, their, its, it, etc.

g.       Using simple past tense. 

GOLDEN EGGS

Long time ago a remote village, in central China was inhabited mainly with farmers and hunters. One day, a poor farmer lost his entire livestock to flood. He prayed hard to God for help or his family would die of starvation.

Few days later, an old man with long grey beard, passed by his house took pity on him. He gave him a goose and said “ I don’t have any expensive thing to give you and hope this goose will help you to ease your hardship.” A week later to almost surprise the farmer found and egg in his yard. This was no ordinary egg. It was a golden egg. He was suddenly overcome with joy.

Thereafter, his livelihood had rapidly improved but the farmer had forgotten his earlier hardship. He became lazy, arrogant and spendthrift.

 

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