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NARRATIVE TEXT

A. GENERAL FEATURE
a. Communicative Purpose
Tujuan komunikatif dari narrative text adalah untuk menghibur (to entertain/to amuse)
pendengar atau pembaca.

b. Generic Structure
Struktur teks dari narrative text adalah:
1. Orientation
Pengenalan karakter, setting, dan waktu cerita. Biasanya menjawab pertanyaan
siapa? kapan? di mana?. Misalnya: Once upon a time, there was a wolf lived in the
forest.
2. Complication
Menceritakan awal masalah yang menyebabkan krisis (klimaks). Complication akan
melibatkan karakter utama.
3. Resolution
Akhir dari cerita yang berupa solusi dari masalah. Perlu adanya resolusi dari masalah.
Masalah yang diselesaikan dapat menjadi lebih baik atau malah lebih buruk, bahagia
atau sedih. Kadang-kadang ada beberapa komplikasi yang harus dipecahkan. Hal ini
menambah serta mempertahankan minat dan ketegangan bagi pembacanya.

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4. Coda (Reorientation)
Merupakan pernyataan penutup cerita dan bersifat opsional (bisa ada atau tidak).
Bisa berisi tentang pelajaran moral, saran atau pengajaran dari penulis.

Contoh dan struktur teks tentang:

Pinocchio

Orientation
Once upon a time, there was a puppeteer named Geppetto. He really wanted a boy but
his wife has been died for a long time ago. One day, he had an idea. He wanted to make a
puppet so he would never felt lonely again. He made a puppet all night without resting.
In the morning, finally he finished his work. He named the puppet, Pinocchio. He played
whole day with Pinocchio. However, he felt lonely again because Pinocchio couldn't talk
or walk by himself. In the middle of the night, Geppetto prayed to the God. His wish was
Pinocchio became a real boy, human. He thought it on his mind in his dream.

Complication
In the next morning, he surprised. Pinocchio was alive. He really was happy. He tough
Pinocchio how to walk, how to speak, how to read etc. like a teacher. Pinocchio learned
fast. He entered an elementary school. One day, Pinocchio felt bored. So, he went home
late. Geppetto worried about him. When Pinocchio came to home, Geppetto asked him.
He said he was on school but he didn't. Suddenly, Pinocchio's nose grow longer. It meant
that Pinocchio lied.

The next day, Pinocchio got caught by thieves. The thieves was the owner of circus. Pinocchio
became a slave for the circus. He was famous because he was a talking puppet. Geppetto
worried him. Pinocchio didn't come home for 2 days. He found Pinocchio everywhere.
When he discovered the sea, big wave smashed him. He was on whale's stomach when he
awoke. He couldn't find the way out.

Resolution
In different place, Pinocchio finally could get out from circus. He went to home but Geppetto
wasn't on there. He found Geppetto at sea. He had the same accident like Geppetto. He
met Geppetto in whale's stomach. They got out from its stomach by made a fire. They
went home back together. In the end, they lived happy forever after.

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B. LANGUAGE FEATURE
Ciri kebahasaan teks ini adalah:
1. A narrative focuses on specific participants.
2. There are many action verbs, verbal and mental processes.
Action verbs:
Kata-kata kerja yang tergolong action verb antara lain yang menyatakan activity
(aktivitas), process (proses), dan momentary action (aksi berdurasi pendek). Action
verb tentunya memiliki bentuk progressive atau continuous. Beberapa contoh action
verb adalah sebagai berikut:

Type of Action Verb Action verb Example

Activity Eat, listen, play, walk, He plays badminton every
work Thursday night
Process Change, grow, melt, Sunflowers grow fast
shorten, widen
Momentary action Hit, jump, knock The athlete jumps when his
coach blow the whistle

3. Direct and indirect speeches are often used.

• Direct speech adalah kalimat langsung yang selalu dicirikan dengan tanda
petik (quotation mark) for instance.
E.g. Juan said, “Go away!”
• Indirect speech adalah kalimat tidak langsung yang hanya dicirikan oleh tanda
titik (full stop) for instance.
E.g. Juan said to go away.
4. It usually uses past tense.
Dalam narrative text selalu menggunakan verb 2 atau was, were (simple past tense).
5. Linking words are used, related with time.
6. There are sometimes some dialog and the tense can change.
7. Descriptive language is used to create listener’s or reader’s imagination.
8. Temporal conjunctions are also used.
For example: as, after, as soon as, at first, at once, before, finally, just, meanwhile, next,
since, now that, then, etc.

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Contoh dan structure text tentang:
Snow White

Orientation
Once upon a time there lived a little, named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and uncle
because her parents were died.

Complication
One day she heard her aunt and uncle talking about leaving Snow White in the castle
because they wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow
White with them.
Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do this. So she decided to run away. The
next morning she run away from home when her aunt and uncle were having breakfast,
she run away into the wood.

In the wood she felt very tired and hungry. Then she saw this cottage. She knocked but no
one answered so she went inside and felt asleep. Meanwhile seven dwarfs were coming
home from work. They went inside. There, they found Snow White woke up. She saw the
dwarfs. The dwarfs said; “What is your name?”.

Resolution
Snow White said; “My name is Snow White”. One of the dwarfs said; “If you wish, you may
live here with us”. Snow White told the whole story about her. Then Snow white ad the
seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.