Narrative Teks

Definition and function of narrative text.

Narrative text is a type of text in the form of fantasy stories, fabricated true stories, or fairy tales. Narrative text tells a story that has a chronological sequence of events that are interconnected. The purpose of narrative text is to entertain the reader.

Text structure (generic structure).

The structure of the narrative text is as follows:

• Orientation : an introduction or an opening in the form of an introduction to character, time and place.
• Complication : the development of conflict or the emergence of problems in the story.
• Resolution : conflict resolution or steps taken to respond to the problem.

Linguistic elements.

In general, narrative text has the following language elements:

• Noun : in general, a noun is used as a pronoun for an animal person, or an object in a story, for example stepmother, the dwarfs, carriage , and others.
• Past tense : narrative text uses the past tense verb ( verb 2), for example went, ate, met, and others.
• Time connective : is a time connective to sort events, for example after, before, after that , and so on.
• Action verbs : a verb that shows an event or activity, for example stayed, climbed, wrote, and others.
• Saying and thinking verb : a verb that shows reporting or speech, for example said, told, thought,and so on.

Well, there it is guys clarification on the definition, function, structure of the text, as well as the linguistic elements of narrative text . You can read one example of narrative text in the text below.

Example of narrative teks

Mermaid The following is a description of an example of narrative text in the story "Putri Duyung": 

Orientation 

In ancient times there was a princess who suffered because of the magician's magic. Actually, the princess is beautiful and kind. Everyone loved him so much except his sister who was jealous of him. 

If the princess still has her beauty, every prince will choose to marry the princess instead of marrying his sister. 

Complications 

Another day, the princess's sister came to an evil witch to turn the beautiful princess into an ugly image. The magician gave him a bottle of magic potion to be mixed into the princess's food. This potion will make the princess ugly. 

In the evening before dinner, the princess's sister mixed a magic potion into her meal. No one knows. The princess ate her food without realizing that there was danger in her food. 

After dinner the princess's skin was blistered. The princess was in pain and she was crying for help. 

No one helped him not even a royal physician. The princess looks terrible like a monster. Putri was very sad and ashamed because everyone was afraid of her. The princess then left the palace far away. 

The Princess walked alone through the forest day and night. He looked terrible like a monster so that not even a beast dared to approach him. It made him feel very sad. 

He walked until he came to a beach and he was very tired because he never stopped walking.

Resolution

 On the beach, he fell asleep and did not realize that he had slept on the beach for three months and he woke up because someone very handsome came and woke him up. "Wake up, my poor daughter," the man said.

 "Who are you? Why not be afraid of me? the princess asked. 

"I am the king of the ocean. You have slept here for three months in agony. Now is the time for me to help you. I will return your beauty but after that you will not be able to live like your previous life. " The man then said.

"Your Majesty is very kind. I have lost my past life and now the new life I wanted. What should I do?" The princess asked again.

"Come near and follow me to the ocean.

"The princess followed the man to the sea. When it touched the ocean, the beauty of the princess returned. He was also amazed when half of his body became the body of a fish. 

“Now you will not be able to live on land, O daughter, you will forever live in the sea like fish. No need to be afraid, I will marry you and you will be the queen of my kingdom. " The man said.

Since then, the princess never returned to the mainland. She married the king to become queen of the sea. Sometimes it will appear on the sea rock to see the sun. Some sailors and fishermen also named her as a mermaid