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    What Is Narrative Text?

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    Narrative text is a type of text that retells a story using past tense to entertain or amuse readers. It follows a common structure including an orientation that introduces characters and setting, a complication where problems arise, a resolution where crises are solved, and a re-orientation that concludes the story. Linguistic features include the use of past tense, conjunctions, specific nouns and adjectives. Common forms of narrative text are legends, fables, fairy tales, folktales, short stories, dramas, classics, fantasies, adventures, science fiction, myths, and mysteries. An example narrative text is the Legend of Toba Lake, which tells the story of a man who catches a magical

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    Narrative text is a type of text that retells a story using past tense to entertain or amuse readers. It follows a common structure including an orientation that introduces characters and setting, a complication where problems arise, a resolution where crises are solved, and a re-orientation that concludes the story. Linguistic features include the use of past tense, conjunctions, specific nouns and adjectives. Common forms of narrative text are legends, fables, fairy tales, folktales, short stories, dramas, classics, fantasies, adventures, science fiction, myths, and mysteries. An example narrative text is the Legend of Toba Lake, which tells the story of a man who catches a magical

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    Narrative text is a type of text that retells a story using past tense to entertain or amuse readers. It follows a common structure including an orientation that introduces characters and setting, a complication where problems arise, a resolution where crises are solved, and a re-orientation that concludes the story. Linguistic features include the use of past tense, conjunctions, specific nouns and adjectives. Common forms of narrative text are legends, fables, fairy tales, folktales, short stories, dramas, classics, fantasies, adventures, science fiction, myths, and mysteries. An example narrative text is the Legend of Toba Lake, which tells the story of a man who catches a magical

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    What Is Narrative Text?

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    Narrative text is a type of text that retells a story using past tense to entertain or amuse readers. It follows a common structure including an orientation that introduces characters and setting, a complication where problems arise, a resolution where crises are solved, and a re-orientation that concludes the story. Linguistic features include the use of past tense, conjunctions, specific nouns and adjectives. Common forms of narrative text are legends, fables, fairy tales, folktales, short stories, dramas, classics, fantasies, adventures, science fiction, myths, and mysteries. An example narrative text is the Legend of Toba Lake, which tells the story of a man who catches a magical

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    What is Narrative Text?

    Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story that past tense. The purpose of the text is to
    entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners about the story.
    The generic structure of Narrative text :
    1. Orientation :
    It set the scene and introduce the participants (it answers the question : who,
    when, what, and where).

    2. Complication :
    Tells the problems of the story and how the main characters solve them.

    3. Resolution :
    The crisis is revolved, for better or worse.

    4. Re-orientation :
    The ending of the story. Maybe, happy ending or sad ending.

    5. Evaluation :
    The stepping back to evaluate the story or the moral message of the story

    Linguistic features :
    1. Use active verbs.
    2. Use past tense.
    3. Use conjunction (and, then, after that, next, etc)
    Also Temporal conjunction, like: once upon a time, one day, long time ago, …
    4. The first person (I or We) or the third person (He, She, or They).
    5. Use specific nouns.
    6. Use adjective and adverbs

    M.Shabirin

    Kind of Narrative text :


    4. Folktale
    1. Legend : Sangkuriang, Malin
    Kundang, etc. 5. Short story
    2. Fable : Mousedeer and crocodile.

    3. Fairy tale : Cinderella, Snow white,


    Pinocchio, etc.
    6. Real-life drama 10. Science Fiction

    7. Classic 11. Myth

    8. Fantasy 12. Mystery

    9. Adventure

    Example of Narrative text :

    The Legend of Toba Lake


    Once upon a time, there was a man who was living in north
    Sumatra. He lived in a simple hut in a farming field. The did some gardening and
    fishing for his daily life.
    One day, while the man was do fishing, he caught a big golden fish in his trap. It
    was the biggest catch which he ever had in his life. Surprisingly, this fish turned into
    a beautiful princess. He felt in love with her and proposed her to be his wife. She
    said; "Yes, but you have to promise not to tell anyone about the secret that I was
    once a fish, otherwise there will be a huge disaster". The man made the deal and
    they got married, lived happily and had a son.
    Few years later, this son would help bringing lunch to his father out in the fields.
    One day, his son was so hungry and he ate his father’s lunch. Unfortunately, he
    found out and got furious, and shouted; “You damned son of a fish”. The son ran
    home and asked his mother. The mother started crying, felt sad that her husband
    had broke his promise.
    Then she told her son to run up the hills because a huge disaster was about to
    come. When her son left, she prayed. Soon there was a big earthquake followed by
    non-stop pouring rain. The whole area got flooded and became Toba Lake. She
    turned into a fish again. Finaly it became a lake. People then call it LAKE TOBA

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