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Narrative Text : Definition, Purposes, Generic Structures, Language Features

Contoh Narrative Text tentang Fable

A. Definisi dan fungsi narrative text.

Narrative text adalah suatu jenis teks yang berupa cerita khayalan, kisah nyata
yang direkayasa, atau dongeng. Narrative text menceritakan suatu cerita yang
memiliki rangkaian peristiwa kronologis yang saling terhubung. Tujuan
dari narrative text adalah untuk menghibur pembacanya.

B. Struktur teks (generic structure).

Adapun struktur dari narrative text adalah sebagai berikut:

 Orientation: pendahuluan atau pembuka yang berupa pengenalan tokoh,

waktu, dan tempat.
 Complication: pengembangan konflik atau pemunculan masalah pada
cerita.
 Resolution: penyelesaian konflik atau langkah yang diambil untuk
merespons masalah.
 Re-orientation: ungkapan – ungkapan penutup yang menunjukan
berakhirnya suatu cerita. Re-orientation bersifat opsional atau tidak selalu
ada pada narrative text.
 Coda: perubahan yang terjadi pada tokoh dan pelajaran/ nilai moral yang
bisa dipetik dari cerita. Coda juga bersifat opsional.

C. Unsur kebahasaan.

Pada umumnya, narrative text memiliki unsur kebahasaan sebagai berikut:

 Noun: pada umumnya kata benda (noun) digunakan sebagai kata ganti
orang hewan, atau benda dalam cerita, misalnya stepmother, the dwarfs,
carriage, dan lain-lain.
 Past tense: narrative text menggunakan kata kerja bentuk lampau (verb 2),
misalnya went, ate, met, dan lain-lain.
 Time connective: merupakan kata penghubung waktu untuk mengurutkan
kejadian, misalnya after, before, after that, dan lain sebagainya.
 Action verbs: kata kerja yang menunjukan peristiwa atau kegiatan,
misalnya stayed, climbed, wrote, dan lain-lain.
 Saying and thinking verb: kata kerja yang menunjukan pelaporan atau
ujaran, misalnya said, told, thought, dan lain sebagainya.

Nah, itu dia guys penjelasan mengenai definisi, fungsi, struktur teks, dan juga
unsur kebahasaan dari narrative text. Kalian bisa membaca satu contoh narrative
text pada bacaan dibawah ini.

Cinderella.
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl named Cinderella. He lived with his
step mother and two sisters. They were arrogant and bad tempered. They treated
Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the hardest job in the house,
such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing food for the family.
Her step sisters, on the other hand, did not work on the house. Their mother gave them
many pretty dresses to wear.

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One day, a king invited all girls in his kingdom to attend a ball in his palace. They were
excited about this and spent so much time choosing the dresses they would wear.
Cinderella could not stop crying after they left.

“Why are you crying, Cinderella?” the voice asked.

She looked up and saw a fairy standing beside her. Then Cinderella told her why she
was crying. Well the fairy said, “you’ve been such a cheerful, hardworking,
uncomplaining girl that I will see that you go to the ball.” The fairy turned a pumpkin into
a coach and mice into a smooth two coach man and footman then tapped Cinderella’s
dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful ball gown.

Then he gave her a pair of pretty glass shoes. Now, Cinderella, she said, “you have to
leave the ball before midnight”. Then he drove away a wonderful coach. Cinderella had
a marvelous time either. She danced again and again with the prince. Suddenly the
clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward the door as fast as he could do. In her
hurry, one of her glass shoes left behind.

A few days later, the prince declared that he would marry the girl whose feet fitted the
glass shoe. Cinderella’s stepsisters tried on it 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
the shoe. She stretched his legs and slipped the shoe on the page. It fitted perfectly.
Finally, she was ushered into a magnificent palace and height. The prince were glad to
see her again. They married and lived happily ever after.

Penjelasan:
Generic Structure

1. Paragraf pertama berisi Orientation, yaitu pengenalan tokoh-tokoh yang ada

pada dongeng Cinderella.
2. Paragraf kedua berisi Complication, yaitu masalah muncul ketika Cinderella tidak
boleh pergi ke pesta dansa (ball).
3. Paragraf ketiga berisi Resolution, yaitu masalah terpecahkan ketika seorang peri
menolongnya.
4. Paragraf terakhir, berisi Re-Orientation, yaitu akhir cerita yang bahagia dimana
akhirnya Cinderella menikah dengan pangeran.

The words in red are The Simple Past Tense

EXERCISES

Write down the generic structure of the narrative text and underlined the past verb

The Monkeys and The Cap Seller

Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was very tired and needed to
rest. Then, he stopped and spread a cloth under a tree.

He placed his bag full of caps near him and lay down with his cap on his
head. The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour.

When he got up, the first thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled
when he found all his caps were not there.

When he looked up the sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the
branches of a tree, each of the monkeys is wearing a cap of on its head.

They had evidently done it to imitate him. He decided to get his caps back by
making a humble request to the monkeys.

In return, the monkeys only made faces of him. When he begun to make gesture,
the monkeys also imitated him.

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At last, he found a clever idea. ” Monkeys are a great imitator,” he thought. So he
took off his own cap and threw it down on the ground.

And as he had expected, all the monkeys took off the caps and threw the caps
down on the ground. Quickly, he stood up and collected the caps, put them back
into his bag and went away.

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2.). Write down the generic structure of the narrative text and underlined the past verb.

The Rabbit and the Turtle

One day a rabbit was boasting about how fast he could run. He was laughing at the
turtle for being so slow.

Much to the rabbit’s surprise, the turtle challenged him to a race. The rabbit thought this
was a good joke and accepted the challenge. The fox was to be the umpire of the race.
As the race began, the rabbit raced way ahead of the turtle, just like everyone thought.

The rabbit got to the halfway point and could not see the turtle anywhere. He was hot
and tired and decided to stop and take a short nap. All this time the turtle kept walking
step by step by step. He never quit no matter how hot or tired he got. He just kept going.

However, the rabbit slept longer than he had thought and woke up. He could not see the
turtle anywhere! He went at full-speed to the finish line but found the turtle there waiting
for him.

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