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Understanding Narrative Texts: Fairy Tales

Narrative text is a type of writing that tells stories or recounts past events, with various forms such as fairy tales, fables, legends, and folktales. It typically follows a structure that includes orientation, complication, and resolution, and employs language features like process verbs, temporal conjunctions, and simple past tense. An example provided is the story of Snow White, which illustrates these elements through its plot and characters.

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Understanding Narrative Texts: Fairy Tales

Narrative text is a type of writing that tells stories or recounts past events, with various forms such as fairy tales, fables, legends, and folktales. It typically follows a structure that includes orientation, complication, and resolution, and employs language features like process verbs, temporal conjunctions, and simple past tense. An example provided is the story of Snow White, which illustrates these elements through its plot and characters.

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NARRATIVE TEXT

1. Definition of Narrative text

Narrative text is a text focusing


specific participants. Its social
function is to tell stories or past
events and entertain the readers.
Kinds of Narrative text
-Fairly tale
-Fable
-Legend
-Folktale

Fairy tale : children’s story about fairies, princess,


giants, etc.

Fable : moral stories, usually about animals,


making them seem like human beings.

Legend : stories from the past which may not be


based on the fact.

Folk tale : traditional stories passed down from one


generation to the next.
B. Generic Structure of Narrative text
A narrative text consist of the following structure :

a. Orientation : Introducing the participant and


informing the time and the place.

b. Complication : Describing the rising crises which


the participant have to do with.

c. Resolution : Showing the way of participant to


solve the crises, better or worse.
C. Language features of narrative text
- Using prosesses verb ( ate, drunk,
written, etc)
- Using temporal conjunction (
once upon a time, long time ago,
etc )
- Using Simple past tense
C. Language features of narrative text
- Using prosesses verb
- Using temporal conjunction
- Using Simple past tense
Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one
answered so she went inside and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the seven dwarrfs were coming home from


work. They went inside. There they found Snow white sleeping.
Then Snow white woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said
: what is your name : Snow white said : My name is Snow
white.

Doc, one of the dwarfs, said “ if you wish, you may live here
with us.” Snow white said, “ oh could l ? Thank you. Then snow
White told the dwarfs the whole story and Snow White and the
seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.
D. Example of narrative text
SNOW WHITE
Once upon a time there live a little girl named Snow White.
She lived with her aunt and Uncle because her parents were
died.
One day she heard her uncle and aunt taking about with
leaving Snow white in the castle because they both wanted to
go to America and they didn’t have enaugh money to take Snow
white.
Snow white didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do this so she
decided it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she
ran away from home when her aunt and uncle were having
breakfast. She ran away into the woods
QUESTION :
Answer the following questions!
1. What is the definition of narrative text ?
2. Explain about the generic structure of narrative text!
3. What are the language features of narrative text did you
know ?
4. Explain the generic structure of narrative text from the
story of SNOW WHITE !
5. Where did Snow White live after she ran away to the
woods?
6. When did Snow White run away to the woods?
7. According to the text, before she ran away into the
woods, why did Snow White live with her uncle and
aunt?
8. How is the ending of the story of SNOW WHITE ?
GOOD LUCK AND SEE YOU.....

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