NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story that past tense. The purpose of the text is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners about the story.

PURPOSE :
to entertain, to gain and hold a reder's interest.

The generic structure of Narrative text :
1. Orientation : (who, were involves in the story,when and where)
2. Complication : (a problem arises and follfwed by other problems)
3. resolusion : (provide solution to the problem)
4. Re-orientation : (The ending of the story)

Linguistic features :
~Use of noun prases (beautiful princess, a huge temple)
~Use of connectives (fist,before,that,then finally)
~Use of adverbials pharses of time and place (in the garden, long time ago )
~Use of simple past tense (he walked away from the village)

Kind of Narrative text :
1. Legend : Sangkuriang, Malin Kundang, etc.
2. Fable : Mousedeer and crocodile.
3. Fairy tale : Cinderella, Snow white, Pinocchio, etc.
4. Science fiction.