Disebutkan

bahwa A narrative text is an

imaginative story to entertain people (teks
narasi adalah cerita imaginatif yang
bertujuan menghibur orang).

Narrative Text

Jenis-Jenis Text Narrative

Dalam

berbagai sumber Narrative Text dapat ditemui

dalam bentuk :
a. fables (Cerita tentang binatang yang digambarkan
berprilaku seperti manusia)
b. fairy stories (Cerita yang bersifat fantastik, penuh
dengan keajaiban)
c. mysteries
d. romances
e. horror stories
f. legends
g. historical narratives
h. personal experience (pengalaman pribadi yang ditulis)
i. ballads (balada, kisah yang bisa mengharukan pembaca,
biasanya berupa cerita cinta yang tak sampai)

Generic Strucrure
a.

Orientation

Yaitu pengenalan yang berupa : cerita tentang apa (what is the story about),
siapa pelaku dalam cerita itu (who is the participant), dimana cerita itu
terjadi (where is the place setting) dan kapan cerita itu terjadi (when is the
time setting).

b. Complication atau Problem

Yaitu pada paragraf ini yang menjadi inti dari narrative text. Tanpa ada
permasalahan, text ini hanyalah berupa paparan peristiwa satu yang diikuti
dengan peristiwa yang lain. Masalah yang timbul dapat dibedakan
menjadi :

- Natural Conflict

Yaitu permasalahan yang timbul karena pelaku cerita berhadapan dengan

bencana alam.

- Social Conflict

Yaitu permasalahan yang timbul karena para pelaku itu saling berhadapan.
Mereka bertemu pada waktu yang sama dengan berbeda kepentingan.

- Psychological Conflict

Yaitu Permasalahan yang timbul ketika pelaku cerita itu berhadapan

dengan dirinya sendiri. Pertentangan antara nilai baik dan buruk, antara
sifat rakus dan tenggang rasa.

 c.

Resolution
Yaitu masalah dapat diatasi.Dalam Narrative text,
setiap permasalahan yang muncul harus ada
penyelesaiannya, bisa ditutup dengan akhir yang
menyenangkan (happy ending) atau tidak sedikit
berakhir tragis, menyedihkan (sad ending).
d. Re-Orientation
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3.

Ciri Kebahasaan Narrative Text

a. Menggunakan pola kalimat Simple Past Tense
b. Biasanya dimulai dengan kata keterangan
waktu (Adverbs of Time) . Seperti : long time
ago..., once, one, once upon a time.
c. Biasanya terdapat tanda kutip (.....) yang berisi
dialog antar lakonnya.

Example
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.
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.

The

Generic Structure of above Narrative Story Is :

Orientation: The cap seller as the participant (main

character), once time as time setting, and in the jungle as
place setting. We note from discussion that the elements
of orientation is shortly answering who, when and where
of the story.
Complication: The cap seller wants the monkeys to bring
back his caps but the monkeys do not return them. Of
course this makes the cap seller face a problem.
Complication in a narrative text is not always in single
problem. That is we know a major conflict and minor
conflict.
Resolution: The cap seller gets the monkey to bring back
the cap by acting of throwing his own cap. The monkeys
imitate what he has done so the problem is is solved. This
story has happy ending as the cap seller has his caps
returned.