NARRATIVE TEXT

  Definition : To amuse or entertain the readers with actual or

imaginary experiences in difference ways. Narrative always deal with some problem which lead to the climax and then turn in to a solution to the problem.

   Text organization :

·        Orientation (who, were, involved in the story, when and where)

·        Complication (a problem arises followed by other problem)

·        Resolution (solution the problem)

    Language features :

·        The use of noun phrase (a beautiful princes, etc)

·        The use of connectives (first, before, then, finally, etc)

·        The use of adverbial phrases of time  and place (at home, 2 days ago, etc)

·        The use of simple past tense (he wrote a letter yesterday)

·        The use of action verb (walk, sleep, wake up)

·        The use of thinking verbs, feeling verbs, verb of sense (she felt hungry)

·        The use of saying verbs (tell, ask, say)

Fairy tales, fables, myths, tall talles belong to…

Narratives…..

    Example :

THE FROG KING

           A hundred years ago there lived a king. He had some beautiful daughters, but the youngest daughter was the most beautiful. Close by the king’s castle, there was a great dark forest.

           And, under an old lime-tree in the forest, there was a well. When the day was warm, the king’s youngest daughter usually went out in to the forest. When se was bored, she took her golden ball and played with it.

            One day, the princess played with her golden ball. Unfortunately, the ball rolled in to the well. She began to cry. Suddenly, there was a frog, who was willing to help her. However, the frog asked the princess to bring him to the palace and to let him always stay close to her. The princess agreed with his request. So the frog jumped into the well and the golden ball out of it.

Orientation

Complication

Resolution