Narrative
Text
Class 09
CLUE
There was a man named Toba who married a woman
01 who had been cursed into a fish, and they have a son
named Samosir. When Toba breaks a promise to the
woman, it leads to a catastrophic event or destruction.
There was a girl, mistreated by her stepmother and
stepsisters, who was transformed into a princess by
02 her fairy godmother and captured the prince's heart at
the royal ball. She left behind a glass slipper and was
reunited with the prince when he found her by fitting
the slipper, leading to a happy ending
CLUE
This is an Indonesian urban legend about a beautiful woman
(ghost) who frequented a bridge in Jakarta. She lured
03 unsuspecting men to the bridge and often led to eerie or tragic
encounters. The story serves as a cautionary tale, warning people
to be cautious when encountering strangers, especially at night.
There was a young princess named Elara who discovers a
mysterious phoenix egg hidden deep within the royal gardens.
04 As she nurtures the egg, a powerful phoenix hatches, forming a
deep bond with her. Together, they embark on a quest to
restore harmony to their kingdom, facing perilous challenges
and discovering their true destinies along the way.
TOBA LAKE CINDERELLA SI MANIS THE
(LEGEND) (FAIRYTALE) JEMBATAN PRINCESS
ANCOL AND THE
(HORROR) PHONIEX
(FANTASY)
DEFINITION
DEFINITION
Narrative text is a text that tells an imaginative story, something
fictional.
purpose: to entertain/amuse the readers
STRUCTURE
1. Orientation - the characters, setting, and background problems
are introduced
2. Complication - the conflict of the story. (rising action: the conflict
escalates, climax: the conflict reaches its peak, falling action: the
conflict cools down)
3. Resolution - the story gets its own closure. It may be closed with
happy ending, sad ending, or cliffhanger.
4. Coda - the moral value of the story, or servers the charaters final
form after development.
FAIRY TALE
A FICTIONAL STORY THAT INVOLVES MAGICAL EVENTS A
IMAGINARY CREATURES (WITCH, FAIRY, MONSTERS). MOSTLY FAIRY
TALES PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.
ex: beauty and the beast, cinderella, etc.
MYSTERY
A STORY THAT PEOPLE USUALLY
SOLVE SOME CASES OR PROBLEMS.
ex: sherlock holmes, detective conan
HORROR
A STORY RELATED TO GHOSTS OR
SOMETHING SCARY
ex: kuntilanak
FABLE
A STORY WHERE ANIMALS ARE THE
CHARATERS
ex: The Hare and the Tortoise, The
Mouse and The Lion
FOLKTALE LEGEND MYTH
FOLKLORE
FOLKTALE (DONGENG)
a traditional story that people of a particular region or group repeat
among themselves. ex: Malin Kundang, Timun Mas
LEGEND (LEGENDA)
A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but
unauthenticated. Legends usually relate to historical figures or places. ex:
sangkuriang, roro jonggrang
FOLKTALE LEGEND MYTH
FOLKLORE
MYTH
Stories that are based on traditions, especially explaining the early
history of group, or about natural events, or fact. Myths often relate to
gods, spirits, and supernatural beings.
FANTASY
A story that is set in a magical world,
often involving traditional myths, and
magical creatures and sometimes ideas
or events in the real world, especially
from the medieval period of history.
Fantasy is the result of a writer’s
imagination
ex: Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings,
Percy Jackson
SCI-FI
A STORY RELATED TO ADVANCED
TECHNOLOGY THAT IS BEYOND
REALITY
ex: Frankenstein, Dune, Ready Player
One
SIMPLE PAST TENSE
is used to talk about a completed action that happened in the past.
LANGUAGE FEATURES
Verbal Sentence ex:
(+) Subject + V2 + Object (+) She drank an oatmilk
(-) Subject + didn’t + V1 + Object (-) They didn’t eat last night
(?) Did + Subject + V1 + Object? (?) Did you go to the hospital last week?
Nominal Sentence ex:
(+) Subject + was/were + (+) She was a doctor
Complement (-) They were not happy about the news
(-) Subject + was/were not + (?) Were you there this morning?
Complement
(?) Was/were + Subject + Object?
PAST CONTINOUS TENSE
is used to describes actions or events in a time before now, which
began in the past and were still goin when another even occured.
LANGUAGE FEATURES
Pattern
(+) Subject + was/were + V-ing + Object
(-) Subject + was/were not + V-ing + Object
(?) Was/were + Subject + V-ing + Object?
ex:
(+) I was eating an apple yesterday when my
friend called
(-) They were not doing their homework
(?) Was she mopping the floor?
PAST PERFECT TENSE
is used to tell about an action that happened before another in the
past.
LANGUAGE FEATURES
Pattern
(+) Subject + had + V3
(-) Subject + had not + V3
(?) Had + Subject + V3?
ex:
(+) I had eaten all the food in the fridge before
you came
(-) He hadn’t given us the news
(?) Had they come to your place?
LANGUAGE FEATURES
The narrative text usually uses these adverb of times or
time expressions for past as bellow:
Once
One day
Once upon a time
Many years ago
Many decades ago
A long time ago
REPORTED SPEECH
DIRECT SPEECH
Direct speech is a sentence in which the exact words spoken are
reproduced in speech marks (also known as quotation marks or
inverted commas). Direct speech is used to report or rather repeat
the words spoken by the speaker or writer in the way it is told by
the speaker. Moreover, it is defined as “a speaker’s actual words”
ex:
The young prince said, "I am the rightful heir to the throne."
I do not believe in the existence of magical creatures," the
queen stated.
INDIRECT SPEECH
Indirect speech is a sentence in which the general points of what
someone has said are reported, without actually writing the
speech out in full. It is sometimes called reported speech.
ex:
The young prince said that he was the rightful heir to the
throne.
The queen stated that she did not believe in the existence of
magical creatures.
HOW TO CHANGE IT
1. Remove the quotation mark (“)
2. Change capital letter into small caps
3. Add Conjunction that (optional)
4. Change the pronoun (third option)
5. Shift back the tenses into past*
6. Correct time reference*
TENSES CHANGE TIME CHANGE
*as for past perfect and past perfect
continuos no need to change
EXAMPLE
Direct Speech Indirect Speech
Simple Present Simple Past
Preethi said, “I cook pasta” Preethi said that she cooked pasta
Present Continuous Tense Past Continuous Tense
Preethi said, “I am cooking pasta” Preethi said that she was cooking pasta
Present Perfect Continuous Past Perfect Continuous
Preethi said, “I have been cooking Preethi said that she had been cooking
pasta” pasta
REPORTED SPEECH OF INTERROGATIVE SENTENCE
The indirect speech must be in the statement
form (not in the question one)
WH Questions: Y/N Questions:
Dilan asked, “What is your name?” Add whether or if before the reported
Dilan asked what my name was speech
Ela asked, “Do you like coffee?”
Caesar wondered, “How can they be Ela asked if i liked coffee.
here?
Caesar wondered how they could be Haris asked, “Are you a cops?”
there Haris asked whether i was a wizard.
TERIMAKASIH