Narrative

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1st Group
Our Members

* Azzahra Nur Ismalia

Nilda Siti Naddiva

* Siti Alianasani
Nadia Damayanti

* Gadis Dwitha Ramadhani

Muhamad Rizky

* Moch Ilyas Al Fiqri

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Definition
 Definition
Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events and
it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems. An important
part of narrative text is the narrative mode, the set of methods used to
communicate the narrative through a process narration.
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Social Function
 Social Function
The social function of narrative text is to tell stories or past
events and entertain the readers. And to deal with actual or
vicarous experience in different ways.
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Kinds of
Narrative Text
Kinds of Narrative Text
Legend
Legend is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners
to take place within human history. Typically, a legend is a short, traditional and
historicized narrative performed in a conversational mode.

Fable
Fable is a short allegorical narrative making a moral point,
traditionally by means of animal characters who speak and act like
human beings.
Kinds of Narrative Text
Fairy tale
Typically features such
folkloric characters as fairies,
goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves,
giants or gnomes, and usually
magic or enchantments.
Myth
It is a traditional or legendary story, usually
concerning some being or hero or event, with or
without a determinable basis of fact or a natural
explanation.
Kinds of
Narrative Text
Science Fiction
Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of
science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society. Science
fiction is that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could
not arise in the world we know.

Romance
Romance or love story is a narrative text which
contains the love struggle of the main character.
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Generic Structure
 Generic Structure

 Orientation: It is about the opening

paragraph where the characters of the
story are introduced. (person, time,
and place)
 Complication: Where the problems in
the story developed.
 Resolution: Where the problems in the
story is solved.
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Language Feature
Language Feature
– Past tense (killed, drunk, etc.)
– Adverb of time (Once upon a time, one day, etc.)
– Time conjunction (when, then, 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.
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Example
Example

Legend Fable Fairy tale

Tangkuban Perahu The smartest parrot
Beauty and the beast
Toba lake Monkey and crocodile
Rapunzel

Myth Science fiction Romance

Dewi Sri Starship Trooper by Robert Heinlein Romeo and Juliet
Batara Kala A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke The Blind Girl
 Example
The Blind Girl

Orientation
There was a blind girl who was filled with animosity and despised the world. She
Spesific character didn’t have many friends, just a boyfriend who loved her deeply.
Action verb She always used to say that she’d marry him if she could see him. Suddenly, one day
someone donated her a pair of eyes. When she finally saw her boyfriend, she was

Complication
Adverb of time astonished to see that her boyfriend was blind.

Direct Speech The man told her, “You can see me now, can we get married?” She replied, “And do
what? We’d never be happy. I have my eye sight now, but you’re still blind. It won’t
Past tense work out, I’m sorry.”

Resolution
With a tear in his eye and a smile on his face, he meekly said, “I understand. I just
Time conjunction want you to always be happy. Take care of yourself, and my eyes.”
Thank You!