Narrative Text

Narrative Text is the text  which contains about a story or fairy tale (could be folklore (folktale), an animal story (fable), legend, short stories, etc) Inside there is a conflict / top issue, followed by completion. The main function of this text is to entertain readers.

Generic Structure :

• Orientation : Introduction contains characters, place and time of the story (who or what, when and where).

• Complication : Contains the top problems / conflicts in the story. A story can have more than one complication.

• Evalution : This is optional (there may be not), usually used to create a more interesting storyline.

• Resolution : Solving problems. Could end in joy (happy ending) could also end up with sadness (sad ending a narrative is a story that is created in a constructive format (as a work of speech, literature, pictures, song, motion pictures, television, video games, theater, musical theater, or dance)) that describes a sequence of fictional or non fictional events.

Language features :

• Noun
• Adjective
• Time connectives and conjunctions
• Actions verbs
• Saying verbs

Kinds of narrative text :

• A myth
• A legend
• A fable
• A folklore