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Understanding Narrative Texts: Types & Structure

Narrative text is a storytelling format that aims to entertain or inform by presenting events in an engaging manner. It is characterized by imaginative content, use of past tense, adverbials of time, adjectives, and noun phrases. Common types include fables, fairy tales, folk tales, legends, and myths, structured with orientation, complication, and resolution.

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Understanding Narrative Texts: Types & Structure

Narrative text is a storytelling format that aims to entertain or inform by presenting events in an engaging manner. It is characterized by imaginative content, use of past tense, adverbials of time, adjectives, and noun phrases. Common types include fables, fairy tales, folk tales, legends, and myths, structured with orientation, complication, and resolution.

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Narrative

Text
By:
Indarti Puji Astuti
DEFINITION

The narrative text is a type of text


that tells a story or describes a
sequence of events
PURPOSE OF THE NARRATIVE TEXT

The purpose of a narrative text is to


entertain or inform the reader by
presenting a series of events in a
coherent and engaging way.
THE CHARACTERISTICS

is an imagination story

contain past tense

use adverbials of time to provide a clear structure


and sense of progression to the story.

use Adjectives are words that describe or modify


nouns, or, put it simply, adjectives are words that
give more information about a noun such as its
color, shape, size, characteristics, etc.
Use noun phrase is a group of words that contains
a noun along with any accompanying modifiers, such
as adjectives, adverbs, or other nouns that
provide more information about the main noun.
THE TYPE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

1. FABLE

Example: the hare and the tortoise


2. FAIRY TALE

Example: Cinderella
3. FOLK TALE

Example: the golden cucumber


4. LEGEND TEXT

Example: Surabaya
5. MYTH

Example: Nyi Roro Kidul


STRUCTURE OF THE TEXT

1. Orientation

I n t r o d u c i n g t h e m a i n c h a r a c t e r , t h e p a r t i c i p a n t , p l a c e a n d te m e ( wh o , wh e n,
where)

2. Complication

The problem

3. Resolution

The solution of the problem


Thank
You

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