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narrative text





 Definition
Narrative Text is a type of text that tells a fictional / fictional story with the aim of entertaining in a chronologically interrelated manner.
As an imaginary story, the Narrative Text is not necessarily true, because it is only based on evidence from a group of people who are not true.
Narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people (narrative text is an imaginative story with the aim of entertaining people).


General structure of the Narrative
Orientation: This section contains an opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced. (Contains the place, character, and time to read the story, who and when)

Complications: The problem parts of the story begin to develop. (Problems start to arise or begin to occur and begin to develop)

Resolution: The problem part of the story begins. The problem is resolved, either in a happy "happy ending" or a "bad ending" or bad.

Coda / reorientation (optional): A section explaining lessons learned from the story.

Language Feature
Past tense: (Killed, drunk, went, won, sent, etc) (killed, drunk, left, won, sent, etc.).

Adverb of time: (Once upon a time, today, one day, will, yesterday, later, etc) (At any time, today, one day, will, yesterday, later, etc.).

Time conjunction: (When, then, suddenly, before, after, until, a soon as, etc) (when, then, suddenly, before, after, arrived, immediately, etc.).

Specific characters / use of specific story characters, not general ones. (Cinderella, Alibaba, Snow White, Tangled, Ariel, etc.)

Action verbs / verbs that indicate an action: (Killed, walked, wrote, stayed, dug, etc) (killed, walked, wrote, stayed, dug up, etc.)

Read out live speech to make the story come alive (Direct speech). (Princess said, "My name is Princess) (Princess said," My name is Princess). Live speech using the present tense.\

Saying and thinking verb: A verb that denotes utterance or reporting. (Said, told, thought, etc) (said, told, thought, etc.).

Characteristic features 
The following are the characteristics of Narrative Text, including:

Narrative Text tells a story from the past.
Use a noun (noun) to replace animal, person, or object pronouns in the story. (The Dwarfs, Carriage, etc) (Dwarves, Carriages, etc.).
It is more of a folk tale or is already known and developed in the community as a shared story even though it can be retold in different versions of the story. (MalinKundang / Indonesia: Tanggang / Malaysia)
The elements of the story consist of time and place settings, story themes, story characters, story atmosphere, conflict and resolution.


Examples of Narrative Text 
The legend of Rainbow


A long time ago, there was a farmer. He had a small farm. One day he found that a wall which he had built on previous days was getting knocked down. The farmer did not know who or what made it. Because he felt tired of this happening the farmer decided to catch who should be responsible.

One evening, while the farmer was in guard he heard something strange near that wall, then he ran to find out who or what it was. It was surprising him because there were three star maidens there. When they saw the farmer was approaching, they tried to escape. Two of the star maidens could run and escape but one of them was left behind.

The farmer then caught the star maiden. She was beautiful and soon the farmer felt in love with her. Because he was afraid that the star maiden would run away, the farmer hid her magical wings so she could not fly anymore. the farmer and the star maiden got married.

Time went by they live together and got a beautiful baby boy. They lived happily for a long time, until one day, the star maiden found her magical wings near their house. She wore her wings back and flew with her son next to her. The farmer was alone and heart broken.

The gods saw the tears of the farmer. They felt pity of him so they decided to build a bridge of different colors for him to climb to the sky and see his son and wife. 

CONCLUTION 


EXERCISES NARRATIVE TEXT

Long, long ago, when the gods and goddesses used to mingle in the affairs of mortals, there was a small kingdom on the slope of Mount Wayang in West Java.  The King, named Sang Prabu, was a wise man.  He had an only daughter, called Princess Teja Nirmala, who was famous for her beauty but she was not married.  One day Sang Prabu made up his mind to settle the matter by a show of strength.
After that, Prince of Blambangan, named Raden Begawan had won the competition.  Unfortunately, the wicked fairy, Princess Segara fell in love with Raden Begawan and used magic power to render him unconscious and he forgot his wedding.  When Sang Prabu was searching, Raden Begawan saw him and soon realized that he had been enchanted by the wicked fairy.  The fairy could not accept this, so she killed Raden Begawan.  When Princess Teja Nirmala heard this, she was very sad.  So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan.

1.  Which one of the following statements is false about Sang Prabu?
A.  Sang Prabu was a father of his only daughter
B.  Sang Prabu was a king of a kingdom in West Java
C.  Sang Prabu was  taken to Kahyangan by a wicked fairy
D.  Sang Prabu was a wise man
E.  Sang Prabu didn’t have a son

2.  Why the wicked fairy did used her magic to make Raden Begawan unconscious?
A.  She didn’t like Raden Begawan
B.  She didn’t want Raden Prabu marry the princess
C.  She wanted Teja Nirmala to forget about her wedding
D.  She didn’t want the prince of Blambangan marry the princess
E.  She didn’t want the prince of Blambangan feel love with her

3.  What do you think will happen if gods or goddesses cannot mingle in the affairs of people in the earth at that time?
A.  Princess Segara will have married with Raden Begawan
B.  Sang Prabu will not hold strength competition
C.  Raden Begawan will not die
D.  Teja Nirmala will stay in the Kahyangan
E.  Wicked Fairy will not take Raden Begawan’s life

4.  So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan.  (Paragraph 2) The word her in the sentence refers to…
A.  The wicked fairy
B.  The nice fairy
C.  Princess Nirmala
D.  Prince Teja
E.  The prince of Blambangan

5.  The similarity between fairy and human according to the text.
A.  The place they live
B.  The jealousy that they posses
C.  The way they don’t feel a love
D.  The strength they have
E.  Their life that is immortal


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