NARRATIVE TEXT

NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people. Or Narrative text have meaning (1) a spoken or written account of connected events a story. (2) the narrated part of a literary work, as distinct from dialogue. (3) the practice or art of narration. 

To conclude, a Narrative text isi a text which contains a story either written or onwritten, and there is a series of interconnected  event.

  GENERIC STRUCTURE OF NARRATIVE TEX

• Orientation: It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.

• Complication: Where the problems in the story developed.

• Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved.

Sometimes, generic structure of narrative text can contain Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution, and Reorientation. “Evaluation” and “Reorientation” can be added or not. Evaluation contains assessment or evaluation of the course of the story or conflict. While Reorientation is the end of the story contains content inference.

   

GRAMMAR

Use the past tenses, well simple past, past perfect, past continuous, past perfect continuous, or past future continuous.

EXAMPLE:

1. Queen of Arabia and Three Sheiks

Maura, who like to be thought of as the most beautiful and powerful queen of Arabia, had many suitors. One by one she discarded them, until her list was reduced to just three sheiks. The three sheiks were all equally young and handsome. They were also rich and strong. It was very hard to decide who would be the best of them.

One evening, Maura disguised herself and went to the camp of the three sheiks. As they were about to have dinner, Maura asked them for something to eat. The first gave her some left over food. The second Sheik gave her some unappetizing camel’s tail. The third sheik, who was called Hakim, offered her some of the most tender and tasty meat. After dinner, the disguised queen left the sheik’s camp.

The following day, the queen invited the three sheiks to dinner at her palace. She ordered her servant to give each one exactly what they had given her the evening before. Hakim, who received a plate of delicious meat, refused to eat it if the other two sheiks could not share it with him.

This Sheik Hakim’s act finally convinced Queen Maura that he was the man for her. “Without question, Hakim is the most generous of you” she announced her choice to the sheiks. “So it is Hakim I will marry”.