The purpose of this text is to entertain the reader about a story or stories.
Types of Narrative Text Narrative text can be imaginary or factual. The following is an example of the genre of Narrative text: Fairy Tale
Mystery
Science fiction
romance
Horror
Fable
Myths and legends
History
Slice of life
Personal experience
and so forth
Narrative Text Features Using Action Verbs in Past Tenses.
Using certain nouns as personal pronouns. Using adjectives that form a noun phrase. Use conjunctions to order events.
Narrative Text Structure The structure of narrative text focuses on a series of steps proposed to construct a text itself. In general, there are four stages in narrative text, namely:
1. Orientation Orientation or commonly referred to as the introduction, contains about who, when, where a story is set.
2. Complications Complication tells the beginning of the problem that causes the peak of the problem or what is commonly called the climax. This section usually involves the main character of the story.
3. Resolution This part is the end of the story or a solution to the problem that occurs. Problems can be solved for better or worse which will make the story have a happy ending or vice versa. Sometimes, some resolution is another problem to solve. This is deliberately made by the author to increase and maintain interest and suspense for the reader. Usually, this type of resolution is found in the mystery and horror genres.
4. Re-orientation Section is the closing of a story that is optional. Re-orientation can contain moral lessons, suggestions or teachings from the author.
Example narrative tekt :
True Friends
Once upon a time, there were two close friends who were walking through the forest together. They knew that anything dangerous can happen any time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would always be together in any case of danger.
Suddenly, they saw a large bear getting closer toward them. One of them climbed a nearby tree at once. But unfortunately the other one did not know how to climb up the tree. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground breathless and pretended to be a dead man.
The bear came near the one who was lying on the ground. It smelt in his ears, and slowly left the place because the bears do not want to touch the dead creatures. After that, the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend that was on the ground, "Friend, what did the bear whisper into your ears?" The other friend replied, "Just now the bear advised me not to believe a false friend."
Moral of the Story- A true friend in need is a friend indeed.
