Narrative
Text ; Definition, Purposes, Generic Structures, Language Features
Narrative
adalah cerita khayal yang bertujuan menghibur pembaca. Tentu yang namanya
cerita khayal itu ya belum tentu keberannya karena bisa jadi itu hanyalah
imaginasi atau cerita fiktif yang dibuat oleh seseorang atau cerita buatan
sekelompok masyarakat yang tida terbukti kebenarannya. Contoh narrative yaitu,
Cinderella, Sangkurian, Snow White, Rabbit and Crocodile, dsb.
Definition
of Narrative Text
A
narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people (teks narasi adalah
cerita imaginatif yang bertujuan menghibur orang).
Generic
Structure of Narrative Text
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Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the
story are introduced.(berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya
cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana)
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Complication : Where the problems in the story developed. (Permasalahan muncul
/ mulai terjadi dan berkembang)
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Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved. Masalah selesai, secara
baik “happy ending” ataupun buruk “bad ending”.
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Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story.
Kadangkala
susunan (generic structure) narrative text bisa berisi: Orientation,
Complication, Evaluation, Resolution dan Reorientation. Meski “Evaluation” dan
“Reorientation” merupakan optional; bisa ditambahkan dan bisa tidak. Evaluation
berisi penilaian/evaluasi terhadap jalannya cerita atau konflik. Sedangkan
Reorientation berisi penyimpulan isi akhir cerita.
Purpose
of Narrative Text
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The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a
story.
The
Characteristics / Language Feature of Narrative Text:
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Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)
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Adverb of time (Once upun a time, one day, etc)
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Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc)
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Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general.
(Cinderella, Snow White, Alibaba, etc)
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Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked, etc)
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Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White said,”My name is
Snow White). The direct speech uses present tense.
Contoh
of Narrative Text : Fable
The Rabbit
and the Turtle
One
day a rabbit was boasting about how fast he could run. He was laughing at the
turtle for being so slow.
Much
to the rabbit’s surprise, the turtle challenged him to a race. The rabbit
thought this was a good joke and accepted the challenge. The fox was to be the
umpire of the race. As the race began, the rabbit raced way ahead of the
turtle, just like everyone thought.
The
rabbit got to the halfway point and could not see the turtle anywhere. He was
hot and tired and decided to stop and take a short nap. All this time the
turtle kept walking step by step by step. He never quit no matter how hot or
tired he got. He just kept going.
However,
the rabbit slept longer than he had thought and woke up. He could not see the
turtle anywhere! He went at full-speed to the finish line but found the turtle
there waiting for him.
