NARRATIVE TEXT

Definition
Narrative text is text that tells a story, recounts events that have happened.

 Purpose
To entertain the reader or listener with a real or fantasy stories in various forms

Kinds
Folktale Legend Fable Fairy Tale Myths Sci-fi Shot Story Note !!! : A real story for entertain

General Structure

Orientation

Resolution

Complication

Characteristic feature of language

Specific/individual participant Material Process/ Action Verb Temporal conjunction Temporal circumstance

Mental Process
Use of past tense.

Temporal circumstance

Example :
Specific Participants

Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Cinderella. She was pretty, loving and clever. But she was Action Verb very poor. She lived with her step mother and stepsisters. They were very mean.
Past Tense

Mental Proces

They hated Cinderella very much. Fortunately, she met a prince. He fell in love with her. Then Cinderella became a princess.
Temporal conjunction

Orientation

Complication

Once upon a time there 40 cruel thieves who put their stolen money and treasures in a cave. They went in the cave by saying ?Open Sesame? to the cave entrance. A poor person, named Ali Baba saw them while they were doing that, so he heard the opening word. After they left, he went toward the cave and opened it. Suddenly he found a very large quantity of money and golden treasures. He took some of it and went back home. After that he became a rich man and his brother wanted to know how he became rich. Ali Baba turned into the richest man in his village. His evil brother was really jealous of him, and wanted to know how he could get such a lot of money. Therefore, when Ali Baba went to the cave again to take some more money, his brother followed him. He saw everything, and decided to go back the next day to take some money for himself. The next morning he found a lot of money in the cave, and he wanted to take all of them. Unfortunately, when he was busy carrying the money to his house, the thieves came. The boss of the thieves asked him how he knew about the cave. He told everything, but unluckily they killed him and went to Ali Baba?s house.

After finding Ali Baba?s house, they made a plan to kill him the following night. Some of the thieves hid in big jars, and the boss pretended that he was a merchant who wanted to sell the jars to Ali Baba. Ali Baba who was a kind man invited the boss of the thief to have lunch together. After lunch they took a rest. Luckily, the house maid went out of the house, and found that there were thieves inside the jars. She finally boiled hot oil and poured it into the jars to kill all of them. The boss of the thieves was caught, and put into prison. Ali Baba was saved from the danger, and he finally lived happily ever after with his maid who became his wife shortly after.

Complication

Resolution

Reorientation

Welcome to Our Question

One of the most famous women in world history was Cleopatra VII. She was the brilliant and beautiful last Pharaoh of Egypt. Historically, she became queen of Egypt in 51 B.C. at the age of eighteen. She was a Ptolemy, descended from one of Alexander the Great's generals. When she was twenty-one, Julius Caesar became her lover. Seven years later she met Antony. The romantic tragic relationship continued until they died by suicide in 30 B.C. Cleopatra was legendary. She was famous not only for her breathtaking beauty but also for her great intellect. She had brown eyes and they were shaped like cat eyes. Her skin was in fact an olive shade, darker than Hollywood actress Liz Taylor who potrayed her in the film 'Cleopatra' in 1963. She had medium dark brown hair, about to the middle of her shoulder blades. She had a reputation as an extraordinarily sensuous woman. Cleopatra was a woman of remarkable poise and unusual intelligence. She was highly educated. She spoke proficiently in nine languages and also skilled in mathematics. She is often considered to be a stunning seductress though she was studying to be a nun. Cleopatra was a very intelligent queen and a politician with a great charisma.

1.is the type of text above narrative text? Why?

once upon a time there lived as neighbors, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit was a good shot, and the bear being very clumsy could not use the arrow to good advantage. The bear was very unkind to the rabbit. Every morning, the bear would call over to the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows and came with the bear to the other side of the hill. the rabbit, fearing to arouse the bear's anger by refusing, consented, and went with the bear, and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. indeed, he shot and killed so many that there was lots of meat left after the bear and his family had loaded themselves, and packed all they could carry home. the bear was very gluttonous, and did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat so the poor rabbit could not even taste the blood from the butchering, as the bear would throw earth on the blood and dry it up. poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day's work. the bear was the father of five children. the youngest boy was very kind to the rabbit. the mother bear, knowing that her youngest was a very hearty eater, always gave him an extra large piece of meat. what the baby bear did not eat, he would take outside with him and pretend to play ball with it, kicking it toward the rabbit's house, and when he got close to the door he would give the meat such a great kick, that it would fly into the rabbit's house, and in this way poor rabbit would get his meal unknown to the papa bear.

2. Find some evidences to support that the bear was an unkind friend! 3. Find some action verb from text above! 4. Finde some temporal circumstance from

text above!

Once upon a time in muria mountain, there lived the family of sunan Muria. Amir hasan or called as sunan Nyamplungan is the son of sunan Muria. He was very spoiled by his mother. Because of that, he became a naughty boy. Then his father, sunan muria asked him to study in kudus. He studied islamic religion to his uncle, sunan kudus. after some time, he became an obedient young man. Sunan muria was very proud of him. one day, sunan muria asked amir hasan to go to somewhere to spread islamic religion. His father asked him to go to an island that could be seen from muria mountain. it was on the west - north of jepara. This island seemed to be fade (kremunkremun in javanese) and from that time, people called the island as karimunjava island. Amir hasan followed by his mate went to karimunjava island. They sailed to the island day and night and finally they reached the island. Then they did what his father said. amir hasan and his people lived in the island ever after.

5. What is the form of this Narrative ? Why?

Key of Answer

1. No, its descriptive text because : Describe particular person or describing the characteristics. There is no Complication dan Resolution. The purpose the text is not for entertain but describe

2. ~ The bear was very unkind to the rabbit ~ the bear was very gluttonous, and did not want the rabbit to get
any of the meat so the poor rabbit could not even taste

3. Call, Asked, Shot, Killed, Packed, Work, Kick, Fly 4. once upon a time there lived as neighbors, a bear and a rabbit

5. The form is Legend, because : The text is true story, the described objects can be proved The story is about identify location (.and from that time, people called the island as karimunjava island. )

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Created by : Denis Ayu Saputri Mulia Buhatika Riska Gusnawati Laela Malik

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