NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is type of text in English to tell a story that has a chronological sequence of events that are interconnected. The purpose of this text is to entertain the reader about a tale or story.

Types of Narrative Text :

• Fairy tale
• Mystery
• Science fiction
• Romance
• Horror
• Fable
• Myth and legend
• History
• Slice of life
• Personal experience
• etc

Characteristics of Narrative Text :

• Using Action Verbs in the form of past tenses.
• Using a specific Noun as a pronoun.
• Using the Adjective to form Noun Phrase.
• Use the Conjunction to sort events.

Generic structure of Narrative Text :

• Orientation : introduction, contains about who, when, where a story is set.
• Complication : the beginning of the problem that causes the peak of the problem or what is commonly called a climax. This section usually involves the main character of the story.
• Resolution : the end of the story or in the form of a solution to the problem that occurred. Problems can be solved can be for better or even worse which will make the story end happily or vice versa.
• Re-orientation : the part is the closing of a story which is optional. Re-orientation can contain moral lessons, suggestions or teachings from the author.
  
  

An Example of Narrative Text (created by me) :

Title      :  Prince Rabbit and Princess Dennada.   

Genre    : Fable

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