Narrative text

Purpose

To amuse or entertain the reader with actual or imaginary experience indifference ways. Narrative always deal with some problems which lead to the climax and then turn into a solution to the problem

Types Of Narrative

There are many types of narrative. They can be imaginary, factual or a combination of both. They may include fairy stories, my steries, science fiction, romances, horror, stories, adventure stories, fables, myths and legends, hisorical narrativees, ballads, slice of life, personal experience.

Text Organization

Orientation : (introduction) in which the characters, setting, and time of the story are established. Usually answers who? when? where?
Complication : A series of events in which the main character attempts to solve the problem.

Resolution :There needs to be a resolution of the complication. The complication may be resolved for better or worse/unhappily. Sometimes there are a number of complication that have to be resolved. These add and sustain interest and suspense for the reader.

Structure that we used in Narrative Text

• The use of noun pharases
(a beatiful princes, a huge temple)
• The use of connectives
(first, before that, then, finally)
• The use of adverbial phrases of time and place
(in the garden, two days ago)
• The use of simple past tense
(He walked away from the village)
• The use of action verbs
(walk, sleep, wakeup)
• The use of saying verbs
(say, tell, ask)
• The use of thinking verbs, feeling verbs, verbs of sense.
(She felt hungry, She tought She was clever)

Fairy tales, fables, myths, tales, belong to narrative

Languange Features

- Focus on spesific and individualized participants
- Use some of behavioural and verbal processes
- Use of material process
- Use relation process and mental process
- Use past tense
- Use of temporal conjunction and temporal circumstances


Social Function :
To amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious ecperience in different ways :
Narratives deal with problematic events lead to crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn find a resolation.