Nama Kelompok 2 :

1. Danny

Adriansyah

2. Dina Afifa Rafi

3. Fajar Ramadhan

4. Fatma Fatimah

Definition of narrative text

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

The generic structure of Narrative text

Orientation : It set the scene and introduce the participants (it answers the question : who, when, what, and where).

Complication : Tells the problems of the story and how the main characters solve them.

Resolution : The crisis is revolved, for better or worse.

Re-orientation : The ending of the story.

LANGUAGE FEATURES OF NARRATIVE TEXT

Biasanya diawali dengan keterangan waktu. Sebagai berikut :

1. once upon a time, once, one day, one afternoon dan lain-lain. keterangan waktunya tidak menyatukan waktu tertentu (specific time).

2. specific participant. tokoh yang ada dalam cerita adalah bersifat tertentu, tidak bersifat umum. misalnya : cinderella, the king, the farmer, jack.

3. penggunaan adjective (kata sifat) untuk memperjelas noun (kata benda). misalnya digunakan untuk ungkapan berikut : a beautiful lady, an old man, a poor widow dll.

5. Memakai pola kalimat simple past tense. pola kalimat yang digunakan adalah simple past karena menceritakan peristiwa yang terjadi diwaktu lampau. namun tidak menutup kemungkinan menggunakan bentuk tense lain misalnya simple present yang dipakai pada kalimat langsung.

6. Time conjunction / penghubung waktu. untuk menghubungkan alur satu dengan yang lain menjadi runut dan mudah diikuti. conjunction yang sering dipakai adalah : when, then, suddenly, next dll.

7. Action verbs. terdapat kata kerja yang

menunjukkan sebuah kegiatan (aktifitasnya

bisa dilihat) misalnya : run, sleep, walk, cut

dll.

8. Direct and indirect speech / kalimat langsung

dan tak langsung. untuk membuat cerita

terasa lebih hidup, digunakan pola kalimat ini

agar terlihat ungkapan pembicaranya (to

show the real word of speaker).

EXAMPLE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

  CINDERELLAOnce upon a time, there was a young girl

named Cinderella. She lived with her step mother and two step sisters.

The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered. They treated Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing the food for the family. The two step sisters, on the other hand, did not work about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome dresses to wear.

One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the ball that the king’s son was going to give at the palace. They were excited about this and spent so much time choosing the dresses they would wear. At last, the day of the ball came, and away went the sisters to it. Cinderella could not help crying after they had left.

“Why are crying, Cinderella?” a voice asked. She looked up and saw her fairy godmother standing beside her, “because I want so much to go to the ball” said Cinderella. “Well” said the godmother,”you’ve been such a cheerful, hardworking, uncomplaining girl that I am going to see that you do go to the ball”.

Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine coach and mice into a coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderella’s raged dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave her a pair of pretty glass slippers. “Now, Cinderella”, she said : “You must leave before midnight”. Then away she drove in her beautiful coach.

Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again and again with the king’s son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward the door as quickly as she could. In her hurry, one of her glass slipper was left behind.

A few days later, the king’ son proclaimed that he would marry the girl whose feet fitted the glass slipper. Her step sisters tried on the slipper but it was too small for them, no matter how hard they squeezed their toes into it. In the end, the king’s page let Cinderella try on the slipper. She stuck out her foot and the page slipped the slipper on. It fitted perfectly.

Finally, she was driven to the palace. The king’s son was overjoyed to see her again. They were married and live happily ever after

~Happy Ending~

The Smartest Animal  Once there was a farmer from Laos.

Every morning and every evening, he ploughed his field with his buffalo.

One day, a tiger saw the farmer and his buffalo working in the field. The tiger was very surprised to see a big animal listening to a small animal. The tiger wanted to know more about the big animal and the small animal.

After the man went home, the tiger spoke to the buffalo; “you are so big and strong. Why do you do everything the man tells you?” The buffalo answered; “oh, the man is very intelligent”.

  The tiger asked; “can you tell me how

intelligent he is?”. “No, I can’t tell you”, said the buffalo; “but you can ask him”.

So the next day the tiger asked to the man; “Can I see your intelligence?”. But the man answered; “it at home”. “Can you go and get it?” asked the tiger. “Yes” said the man; “but I am afraid you will kill my buffalo when I am gone. Can I tie you to a tree?”.

After the man tied the tiger to the tree, he didn’t go home to get his intelligence. He took his plough and hit the tiger. Then he said; “Now you know about my intelligence even you haven’t seen it.THE END

Blind Listening

A stupid man was sent by his father to sell salt. He first went to a mining area but nobody there wanted his salt. When he returned home, his father told him that if he had helped the miners to dig, they would have bought his salt.

The man next went to a house where a wedding was taking place. There he dug a huge hole. This made the people angry and they chased him away. When he returned home, his father told him that if he had beaten a drum and danced instead, the people there would have bought salt from him.

Then, he went to a village where there happened to be a fire. Rushing to the place, he started drumming and dancing, only to be thrown out by the people. His father told him that he should have poured water on the fire instead, if he wanted to sell salt there.

In the next place he went to, a couple were fighting with each other. The foolish man poured a bucketful of water on them, again to be chased away. His father later told him that he should have tried to settle the quarrel, in which case they would have bought salt from him.

In the final event, the man saw two bulls fighting with each other. He stepped in to stop the fight and was gored to death by angry bulls.

THE END

Generic Structure of Narrative Text

1. Orientation → it means to introduce the participants or the characters of the story with the time and place set. Orientation actually exists in every text type though it has different term. In this story, the first paragraph is clearly seen to introduce the participants of the Cinderella Story. They were Cinderella her self as the main character of the story, her step mother which treated Cinderella badly, and her steps sister which supported her mother to make Cinderella was treated very badly. Cinderella was introduced as a hero in this story. She struggled against the bad treatment from her step mother and sisters.

2. Complication → it is such the crisis of the story. If there is not the crisis, the story is not a narrative text. In a long story, the complication appears in several situations. It means that some time there is more then one complication. In this Cinderella story, we can see clearly that there are Major Complication and Minor Complication. The second paragraph is the major complication of this Cinderella story. Cinderella got bad treatment from her stepmother. It is the bad crisis which drives into several minor complications which Cinderella has to overcome.

3. Resolution → it is the final series of the events which happen in the story. The resolution can be good or bad. The point is that it has been accomplished by the characters. Like complication, there are Major Resolution and Minor Resolution. In the last paragraph, it is said that finally Cinderella lived happily. It is the happy resolution of the bad treatment.

~Finish~

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