12. Narrative Text

Narrative Text is story. Mostly, narrative are imaginary stories but sometimes narratives can be factual too. Narrative includes fairy stories,fables,mystery,science,fictions,any romance and horror.(source : http://nadiaprettyexcesia.blogspot.com/2010/11/narrative-text-narrative-text-is-story.html)

Characteristic of Narrative Text :

1. Entertain the readers

2. Structure of the text = orientation- complication- resolution

3. Other Generic structure = evaluation and coda

4. Language features = nouns, adjectives, time conjuction and conjunctions, adverb and adverbial phrases, action verbs, saying verbs

Kinds of Narrative Text :

• Myth

• Legend

• Fable

• Folklore

Generic Structures: Orientation - Complication - Resolution

Orientation: it is about WHO, WHEN, and WHERE the story happened.

Complication: it is about the conflict or the big problem of the story. Complication is the part of the story in which there is a conflict among the characters of the story (it is possible to make more than one conflict in a complication), and it is the climax of the story (the big problem in the story). A story can have more than one complication.

Resolution: it is the solution of the problem. It can be a happy or sad ending. In Resolution, the solution or the way out of the conflict/ the big problem must be written.

Coda: it is the change of one of the character or two, or the meaning of the story that can be caught as a moral value of life.