Sabtu, 28 April 2012

Narrative Text

Definition about narrative text is a text that is used for the purpose of entertaining or amusing, creating, stimulating emotions, motivating, guiding and teaching the readers or the listeners and it usually deals with actual or vicious experience.

Narrative text such as : fable ( Mouse Deer and Crocodile ),legend/folk tables (Sangkuriang, Malin Kundang ),Fairy Tale ( Cinderella, Snow White, Pinochio)

The generic structure of Narrative text:
  1. Orientation : It sets  the scene and introduces the participants (it answer the    questions = who, when, what, where)
  2. Evaluation: A stepping back to evaluate the plight (the information about  the narrator’s point of view) .It’s optional.
  3. Complication: A crisis or a problem arises. It usually involves the main characters
  4. Resolution   : A solution to the problem (for better or worse) main characters find ways to solve the problem.

The grammatical features of narrative are:
  • It uses time connectives and conjunctions.
  • It uses simple past tense.
  • It uses adjectives to build noun groups to describe the people, animals, or things in the story.
  • It uses adverbs or adverbial phrases to locate the particular events.
  • It uses of action verbs to indicate the actions.
  • It uses saying and thinking verbs to indicate what characters are feeling, thinking or saying.
  • It uses specific nouns
  • It uses adjectives which form noun phrases.

Example Of Narrative Text:



The Starfish Story
Orientation 
A friend of ours was walking down a deserted beach at sunset. As he walked along, he saw a woman in the distance.

Complication

As he grew nearer, he noticed that she kept leaning down, picking up something and throwing it out into the ocean.
As our friend got even closer, he noticed that the woman was picking up starfish that had  been washed up on the beach. After that, one at a time, she was  throwing them back into the water.
Our friend was puzzled. Then, he approached the woman and said, “Good evening, I was wondering what are you doing.?”
“I’m throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see, it’s low tide now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don’t throw them back into the sea, they’ll die from lack of oxygen.”
“I understand,” my friend replied , “but there must be thousand of starfish on this beach. You can’t possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. And don’t you realize this is probably happening in hundreds of beaches up and down this coast? Can you see that you can’t possibly make a difference?”


Resolution

          The woman smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish. As she threw it back into the sea, she replied triumphantly, “Made a difference to that one!”

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