2. NARATIVE TEXT IS….?
Narrative text jika diartikan adalah : a text which
contains about story (fiction/non
fiction/tales/folktales/fables/myths/epic) and its plot
consists of climax of the story (complication) then
followed by the resolution. A narrative text is a text
amuse, entertain and deal with actual or vicarious
experience in different ways.
Artinya : teks yang berisi tentang kisah (fiksi / non
fiksi / dongeng / cerita rakyat / dongeng / mitos /
epik) dan plot yang terdiri dari klimaks cerita
(komplikasi) kemudian diikuti oleh resolusi. Sebuah
teks naratif adalah teks yang menghibur,
3. 1. GENERIC STRUCTURE:
Orientation: berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya
cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana)
Complication: Berisi puncak konflik/masalah dalam cerita.
Sebuah cerita boleh memiliki complication lebih dari satu.
Resolution: Pemecahan masalah. Bisa berakhir dengan
kegembiraan (happy ending) bisa pula berakhir dengan
kesedihan (sad ending).
Catatan:
Terkadang juga susunannya (generic structure): Orientation,
Complication, Evaluation, Resolution dan Reorientation.
Untuk “Evaluation” dan “Reorientation” merupakan optional; bisa
ada bisa tidak. Evaluation berisi penilaian/evaluasi terhadap
jalannya cerita atau konflik. SedangkanReorientation berisi
penyimpulan isi akhir cerita.
4. 2. GRAMMATICAL FEATURES
Menggunakan tenses “past”
Sering menggunakan kata penghubung waktu (temporal
conjunction), misalnya: once upon a time, one day, long
time ago,
Narrative Text adalah teks yang isinya merupakan cerita
atau kisah tentang sesuatu.
Contoh narrative text: cerita rakyat (folktale), cerita
binatang (fable), Legenda (legend), cerita pendek (short
story), dan sejenisnya. Di dalamnya terdapat
konflik/puncak masalah yang diikuti dengan
penyelesaian.
Fungsi utama teks ini adalah untuk berkisah atau
menghibur pembaca.
6. Snow White
Once upon a time there lived a little, named Snow White. She lived with her aunt
and uncle because her parents were died.
One day she heard her aunt and uncle talking about leaving Snow White in the
castle because they wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough
money to take Snow White with them. Snow White didn’t want her uncle and
aunt to do this. So she decided to run away. The next morning she run away
from home when her aunt and uncle were having breakfast, she run away into
the wood.
In the wood she felt very tired and hungry. Then she saw this cottage. She knocked
but no one answered so she went inside and felt asleep
Meanwhile seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There,
they found Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said; “What is
your name?”. Snow White said; “My name is Snow White”. One of the dwarfs
said; “If you wish, you may live here with us”. Snow White told the whole story
about her. Then Snow white ad the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.
7. THE BEAR AND RABBIT
Once upon a time, there lived a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In contrary, the
bear is always clumsy and could not use the arrow.
One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows. The
rabbit was fearing to arouse the bear's anger so he could not refuse it. He went with the
bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. Indeed he shot and killed so
many that there were lots of meats left after.
However the bear did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. The rabbit could not even
taste the meat. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day's work.
The bear was the father of five children. Fortunately, the youngest child was very kind to the
rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave him an extra large piece of
meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He would take it outside with him and pretended
to play ball with the meat. He kicked toward the rabbit's house.When he got close to the
door he would give the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's
house. In this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal.