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Understanding Narrative Text Structure

Narrative text is a chronological story written in the past tense, aimed at entertaining readers. It includes various types such as fairy tales, romance, and legends, structured with orientation, complication, resolution, and reorientation. Key language features include the use of simple past tense, adverbs of time, adjectives, and noun phrases to enhance the storytelling experience.

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Understanding Narrative Text Structure

Narrative text is a chronological story written in the past tense, aimed at entertaining readers. It includes various types such as fairy tales, romance, and legends, structured with orientation, complication, resolution, and reorientation. Key language features include the use of simple past tense, adverbs of time, adjectives, and noun phrases to enhance the storytelling experience.

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Narrative Text

Narrative text is a the type of text that tells a chronological story in the past tense.
The purpose of narrative text is to entertain the readers through the amusing story.

The types of narrative texts:


1. Fairy tales
2. Romance
3. Horror
4. Comedy
5. Legend
6. Fable
7. Mysteries
8. Science fiction
9. Folkfore

Generic structure (susunan text) :


1. Orientation
Bagian ini mengenalkan tokoh dalam cerita (characters) serta latar terjadinya cerita yang
meliputi latar tempat, waktu, suasana, dan keadaan sosial (setting).
2. Complication
Complication terbagi lagi menjadi 3 bagian:

- Rising action: Masalah mulai muncul


- Climax: Puncak permasalahan
- Falling action: Tensi permasalahan mulai menurun, dan mulai menemukan titik
penyelesaian.
3. Resolution
Bagian ini berisi penyelesaian atau akhir dari sebuah cerita teks narasi.
4. Reorientation
Bagian ini berisi kesimpulan, pesan moral (moral value), atau perubahan watak tokoh di
akhir cerita.

Language Features (ciri kebahasaannya) :


1. Using simple past tense
2. Using adverb of time
Contoh adverb of time, antara lain today, yesterday, one day, tomorrow, last year, later,
dan sebagainya.
3. Using adjective
Adjective (kt sifat) membantu menciptakan cerita yang lebih rinci atau deskriptif. Dengan
begitu, ini akan menstimulasi imajinasi pembaca, sehingga mereka dapat ikut hanyut ke
dalam cerita.
4. Using noun phrase
Noun phrase adalah kt benda. Ini berupa tempat, orang, makhluk hidup, dan lain-lain.
Example of narrative text
The Legend of Mount Batur

A long time ago, there lived on the island of Bali a giant-like creature named Kbo Iwo. The
people of Bali used to say that Kbo Iwo was everything, a destroyer as well as a creator. He
was satisfied with the meal, but this meant for the Balinese people enough food for a thousand
men.

Difficulties arose when for the first time the barns were almost empty and the new harvest was
still a long way off. This made Kbo Iwo wild with great anger. In his hunger, he destroyed all of
the houses and even the temples. It made the Balinese turn to rage.

So, they came together to plan steps to oppose this powerful giant by using his stupidity. They
asked Kbo Iwo to build them a very deep well, and rebuild all the houses and temples he had
destroyed. After they fed Kbo Iwo, he began to dig a deep hole.

One day he had eaten too much, he fell asleep in the hole. The oldest man in the village gave a
sign, and the villagers began to throw the limestone they had collected before into the hole. The
limestone made the water inside the hole boiling. Kbo Iwo was buried alive. Then the water in
the well rose higher and higher until at last it overflowed and formed Lake Batur. The mound of
earth dug from the well by Kbo Iwo is known as Mount Batur.

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