Narrative Text

Purpose : To amuse or entertain the readers with actual or imaginary experience in different ways. Narratives always deal with some problems which lead to the climax and the turn into a solution to the problem.

Text organization :

• Orientation
• Complication 
• Resolution

Language features : 

• The use of noun phrases
• The use of connectives
• The use of adverbial phrases of time and place
• The use of the simple past tense
• The use of action verbs
• The use of saying verbs
• The use of thinking verbs, feeling verbs, verbs of senses

Fairy tale, fables, myths, tall tales belong to narratives.