NARRATIVE TEXT

Social Function : Its Used to entertain and amuse the readers. Generic Structure : 1. Orientation; The Orientation is about the opening paragraph where the characters, times, places of the story are introduced. 2. Complication; The Complication is the paragraph that shows the problems in the story developed. 3. Climax; The Climax is point of highest tension or story or when the action starts in which the solution is given. 4. Resolution; The Resolution is Paragraph where the problems in the story is solved. 5. Reorientation; The Reorientation is the paragraph for the conclusion of the whole story. Kinds of Narrative Text : 1. Folktale; Folktale is a Tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk. 2. Fable; Fable is a Short Story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. 3. Fairytale; Fairytale is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls,

dwarves, giants, mermaids or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. 4. Legend; Legend is a Traditional Story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated. 5. Myth; Myth is a kind of Traditional Story, esp. one concerning the arly history of people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically Language Features : 1. The Use of Action Verbs -Action Verb is the verbs that shows the activity (Run, Walk,Write, etc) 2. The Use of Adverbs, Adjective, and Noun Phrase -Adverb is word that describes or verb and adjective (Carefully, more, so, etc). -Adjective is a word that used to describe noun. (Black, Tall, Curly, etc). -Noun Phrase is a noun that has an adverb where the adverb explains nature, position, and etc. (New Book, Red Book, So Hard, etc). 3. The Use of Past Forms -Past Form is kind of past tense (Ran, Walked, Wrote, etc) 4. The Use of Conjuctions -Conjuction or connector (First, Then, Next, etc) 5. The Use of Reported Speech -Reported Speech is indirectly sentence that used to report on what other people say to put in a sentence that made on their own. (Siska asked Shanty to give her a piece of paper)

6. The Use of Passive Voice -Passive Voice is the sentence where the subject get worked by the object sentence. (That Book has been translated into many language)