Teks Narrative dalam inggris ( Narrative in English)

Narrative

A narrative is a text that tells a story. The story can be imaginary or base on a real incident.

Communicative purpose

To entertain the reader.

Example:

Short stories, folk tales, legends, fables, myths.

The text organization of a narrative

A narrative text can have as many paragraphs as you want. However, it mainly consists of three parts, the orientation, sequence of even/complication and resolution.

Orientation

Presents the setting of your story and introduces the characters.

Complication

The story continues here. Usually, there will be an event or sequence of events that lead the characters into a complication (some from of conflict that disrupts the normal even). Tension starts to build up to a climax, and this draws anticipation the readers.

Resolution

The problem starts to get resolved. Something the story ends happily or vice versa, and at other times the resolution (i.e. the ending of the story) is left the readers to decide.

Grammatical features related to narrative texts

      Action verbs

      Adjectives

      Connectors related to time and sequence

      Pronouns

      Punctuation

      Simple past tense

      Adverbs

      Compound and complex sentences

Sumber : Creative English Workbook, Erlangga