NARRATIVE TEXT

Generic Structure Narrative Text

• Orientasi : set adegan dan memperkenalkan
para peserta.
• Komplikasi : krisis, konflik, atau masalah
muncul.
• Resolusi : krisis atau masalah tersebut teratasi,
untuk lebih baik atau lebih buruk.
• Re-Orientasi : Opsional (tidak harus).
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dengan genre narrative text, maka ciri-ciri di bawah ini bisa
dijadikan pedoman:
• Fokus pada satu tokoh atau pelaku dan biasanya individual
sehingga biasanya menggunakan kata ganti seperti “I, we, she,
he”.
• Paling sering menggunakan past tense baik itu simple past
tense, past continuous, maupun bentuk past tense lainnya.
• Terkadang menggunakan dialog untuk mengajak pembaca
berimajinasi sehingga ceritanya terlihat lebih jelas dan nyata.
• Karena berurutan (kronologis), maka biasanya juga
menggunakan kata sambung (conjunction) agar cerita terlihat
runtut atau urut.
 Jenis-jenis text narrative:
• Fable (fabel): Cerita yang menggambarkan tentang binatang.
• Legend (legenda): Cerita rakyat yang menggambarkan bagaimana
asal usul suatu tempat itu terjadi
• Myth (mite): Cerita mitos ini banyak beredar dalam masyarakat
dan umumnya diaggap sebagi cerita faktual.
• Fairy tales (dongeng): Cerita rakyat yang biasanya disebut sebagai
dongeng atau cerita anak-anak yang berisi banyak keajaiaban pada
tokoh-tokoh ceritanya dan sering mangandung pesan moral
• Folk tale (cerita rakyat): Sebuah cerita yang dituturkan turun
temurun sehingga menjadi bagian dari tradisi suatu masyarakat
• Love story : kalau cerita cinta ini lebih pada tema ceritanya yang
berisi perjuangan untuk mendapatkan cinta bagi tokoh cerita.
 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.
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.
• Paragraf pertama berisi Orientation, yaitu
pengenalan tokoh-tokoh yang ada pada dongeng
Cinderella.
• Paragraf kedua berisi Complication, yaitu
masalah muncul ketika Cinderella tidak boleh
pergi ke pesta dansa (ball).
• Paragraf ketiga berisi Resolution, yaitu masalah
terpecahkan ketika seorang peri menolongnya.
• Paragraf terakhir, berisi Re-Orientation, yaitu
akhir cerita yang bahagia dimana akhirnya
Cinderella menikah dengan pangeran.
 THE RATS AND THE ELEPHANTS

Once upon a time there lived a group of mice under a tree in peace.
However, a group of elephants crossing the jungle unknowingly
destroyed the homes of all the rats. Many of them were even crushed
to death.
Then taking of rats decided to approach the elephant's chief and
request him to guide his herd through another route. On hearing the
sad story, the elephant's king apologized and agreed to take another
route. And so the lives of the rats were saved.
One day elephant-hunters came to the jungle and trapped a group of
elephants in huge nets. Then the elephant king suddenly remembered
the king of the rats. He summoned on of the elephants of his herd,
which had not been trapped, to go seek help from the king and told
him about the trapped elephants.
The rat's king immediately took his entire group of rats and they cut
open the nets which had trapped the elephant's herd. The elephant
herd was totally set free. They danced with joy and thank the rats.
Unknowingly : tidak mengetahui
Destroyed : merusak
Decided : menentukan
Approch : mengangkat
Chief : pemimpin
Guide : penunjuk jalan
Hunters : pemburu
Summon : mengundang
Trapped : perangkap
1. What type of text is the above text? It is …
A. a narrative text
B. a description text
C. a recount text
D. an anecdote text
E. an expository text

2. What destroyed the homes of all rats?

A. a group of mice did
B. the hunter did
C. elephant-hunter did
D. a group of elephant did
E. elephant's herd

3. What helped the elephant's herd free?

A. the elephant-hunter did
B. the hunters did
C. the trapped elephants did
D. a group of king did
E. entire group of rats did

4. What is generic structure of "once upon a time there lived a group of mice under a tree in peace"? A.
Identification
B. Orientation
C. Complication
D. Resolution
E. Description

5. At the end of the story, how was the elephant's herd?

A. angry
B. sad
C. happy
D. dead
E. disappointed