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Narrative text
What is
narrative text?
A story with complication or problematic
events and it tries to find the resolutions
to solve the problems.
What is the purpose
of narrative text?
To amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.
Generic structure
●Orientation
Where and when the story happened and introduces the participants
of the story
●Complication
Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of
the main participants.
●Resolution
The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a
sad (tragic) ending
●Re-orientation/Coda
This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional.
It consists of a moral lesson, advice or teaching from the writer
Language feature
1. Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)
2. Adverb of time (Once upon a time, one day, etc)
3. Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc)
4. Specific character. The character of the story is specific,
not general. (Cinderella, Snow White, Alibaba, etc)
5. Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug,
walked, etc)
6. Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White
said,”My name is Snow White). The direct speech uses
present tense.
example
The Ugly Duckling
One upon time, a mother duck sat on her eggs. She felt tired of sitting on them. She just wished the eggs
would break out. Several days later, she got her wish. The eggs cracked and some cute little ducklings appeared. "Peep,
peep" the little ducklings cried. "Quack, quack" their mother greeted in return. However the largest egg had not cracked.
The mother duck sat on it for several days. Finally, it cracked and a huge ugly duckling waddled out. The mother duck
looked at him in surprise. He was so big and very gray. He didn't look like the others at all. He was like a turkey.
When the mother duck brought the children to the pond for their first swimming lesson., the huge grey
duckling splashed and paddled about just as nicely as the other ducklings did. "That is not a turkey chick. He is my very
own son and quite handsome" the mother said proudly. However, the other animals didn't agree. They hissed and made
fun of him day by day. Even his own sisters and brothers were very unkind. "You are very ugly" they quacked.
The little poor duckling was very unhappy. "I wish I looked like them" he thought to himself. One day,
the ugly duckling run away and hid in the bushes. The sad duckling lived alone through the cold and snow winter.
Finally the spring flowers began to bloom. While he was swimming in the pond, he saw three large white swans
swimming toward him. "Oh, dear. these beautiful birds will laugh and peck me too" he said to himself. But the swans
did not attack him. Instead, they swam around him and stroked him with their bills. As the ugly duckling bent his neck to
speak to them, he saw his reflection in the water. He could not believe his eyes. "I am not an ugly duckling but a
beautiful swam" he exclaimed. He was very happy. From that day on, he swam and played with his new friends and was
happier than he had never been.
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