NARRATIVE TEXT - The definition, purposes, generic structures andexample of

Narrative text

A. The definition of narrative text

Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events and it tries to

find the resolutions to solve the problems. An important part of narrative text is
the narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative
through a process narration.

B. The purpose of narrative text

The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a

story.

C. Generic Structures of Narrative Text

1) Orientation

Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the
participants of the story: who and what is involved in the story.

2) Complication

Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main
participants.

3) Resolution

The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic)
ending

4) Re-orientation/Coda

This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It

consists of a moral lesson, advice or teaching from the writer
Language Feature Of Narrative Text Beserta Contoh Narative Text Lengkap – Kali ini kita akan
membahas tentang the language feature of narrative text, dimana sama halnya dengan ketata
bahasaan dari narrative teks itu sendiri. Mau tahu, apa sajakah yang termasuk dalam ketatabahasaan
dari narrative itu? berikut penjelasan lengkapnya

 Menggunakan the active verb

Yang dimaksud dengan active verb yaitu jenis kata kerja yang selalu membutuhkan sebuah objek dan
selalu mengidentifikasi bahwa subjek melakukan sebuah pekerjaan.

 Penggunaan first person and the third person

Yang termasuk the first person yaitu “I dan we” sedangkan yang tergolong dalam the third person
yaitu “he, she and they”

 Mengharuskan menggunakan the simple past tense

Rumus simple past tense

Verbal pattern Nominal pattern

Positive Positive
SUBJECT + WERE/WAS + NOUN/
SUBJECT + VERB 2 + OBJECT ADJECTIVE/ ADVERB

Negative
Negative
SUBJECT + WERE/WAS + not +NOUN/
SUBJECT + did + not + VERB 1 + OBJECT
ADJECTIVE/ ADVERB

Interrogative
Interrogative
DID + SUBJECT + VERB 1 + OBJECT? WERE/WAS + SUBJECT + NOUN/
ADJECTIVE/ ADVERB

 Kata penghubung atau conjunction

Contoh dari kata penghubung antara lain “ in. and, so, wherever, not only dan lain sebagainya’

 Kata benda yang khusus atau specific noun

Contoh dari kata benda khusus yaitu burug hantu (owl), bunga melati (jasmine), tas punggung
(backpack) dan lain sebagainya.

 Adjective dan adverb selalu digunakan

Adjective sendiri merupakan kata sifat seperti “black (hitam), far (jauh), heavy (berat) dan lain
sebagainya). Dan untuk contoh adverb atau kata keterangan seperti here (disini), there (disana) dan
lain sebagainya.”

Mari kita menganalisa the linguistic feature of the narrative teks, dibawah ini.. untuk lebih
mempermudahkan dalam memilahnya, kami sudah membuat table.
Example

The linguistic feature of

The frog in the well
the narrative teks

Once open the time, there was a frog which lived in the swallow
the simple past tense well in a villager’s home. He met a turtle which came from the
eastern ocean and said,

“Look how well off I am here!”. “ I always can hop along the
well while I want to go out and I can rest by a crevice in the
The active verb
bricks on my returns. And then I can wallow to my heart’s which
contents with only my head above water.

I can stroll water deep trough soft mud. No crabs or tadpoles

with me, I am the master in this water and the God of this wallow
The first person well. You know that there is no question about the fellow? It is
way I suggest you to come here everyday day to get a good time
with me”

Before the turtle which came from the eastern ocean stepped his
The specific noun foot to the well, suddenly he got his claw on something. So he
continued to halte and stepped back.

He told that it was more than thousand miles across and more
The conjunction than ten thousand feet deep. So there were floods nine years out
of ten yet

Adjective The frog was silent without saying nothing

Adverb So he was still standing in the hence of the well

1.Orientation

Sebuah orientation tidak selalu ditandai dengan hanya satu paragraph saja, terkadang ada cerita yang
menceritakan nama tokoh, tempat kejadian, dan waktunya dalam keterangan yang panjang.

2. Complication

Sedangkan untuk Complication, ditaksir terjadi dari asal muasal sebuah permasalahan terjadi dari
skala kecil menjadi bessar. Didalam complication, kita akan dikuras emosi kita dalam menghadapi
sebuah situasi.

3. Resolution

Dan pada akhirnya yaitu resolution yang didalamnya mempunyai tujuan untuk menyelesaikan sebuah
permasalahan yang biasanya ditandai oleh tokoh baru atau sebuah kejadian yang mengakhiri
ceritanya.

Berikut ini adalah contoh sebuah cerita dari narrative text yang disertai dengan pembagian
characteristic –nya.

Orientation
In a village , there was a small family which consisted of a husband and his wife. They spend their day
in their rice field and collect the wood, then they sold them in the market. They had not had a child. they
always try many item to come their dreams true. They could pray to the God.

Complication
The giant listened their pray every night. He came their home, he gave them a alternation choice to
make their dream to come true. Do you know? The giant gave them a cucumber seed and asked them
to planted it in front of their home where it was near from their home. The couple agreed, they planted .
The cucumber tree grew fast and fresh. In the harvest, they found the giant cucumber. They took it and
they were shocked because it could cry. They cut it into two, and there was a girl baby. They named
her, “Timun Emas”. They saved her till she was teen.

Resolution
The giant came to their home again after a long time ago. He wanted to take her but the couple did not
want. the giant was so angry and try to catch her . Timun emas was given shrimp pasta, salt and
cucumber seed which had magic power. First , she spread the cucumber seed , it grew cucumber tree
but the giant could escape. the second, she spread salt, it became the ocean but the giant could swim.
Finally, she spread the shrimp paste, it became living ground, the giant could not walk and he was
buried. Timus mas was happy ever after with her parent
 The Legend of Surabaya
A long time ago, there were two animals, Sura and Baya. Sura was the
name of a shark and Baya was a crocodile. They lived in a sea.

Once Sura and Baya were looking for some food. Suddenly, Baya saw
a goat “Yummy, this is my lunch,” said Baya. “No way! This is my lunch.
You are greedy” said Sura. Then they fought for the goat. After several
hours, they were very tired.

Feeling tired of fighting, they lived in the different places. Sura lived in
the water and Baya lived in the land. The border was the beach, so
they would never fight again.

One day, Sura went to the land and looked for some food in the river.
He was very hungry and there was not much food in the sea. Baya was
very angry when he knew that Sura broke the promise. They fought
again.

They both hit each other. Sura bit Baya’s tail. Baya did the same thing
to Sura. He bit very hard until Sura finally gave up and went back to
the sea. Baya was happy.
 Pinocchio
In the past, there was a puppeteer whose name is Geppetto. He eager
to have a son very much but his wife passed away several years ago.
One day, he got an idea to make a puppet in order not to be lonely
again. He made a puppet all day long. Finally, in the morning he had
finished his work and he named the puppet Pinocchio. Soon he felt
lonely again since Pinocchio couldn’t walk or talk by itself. One night,
Geppetto prayed to the God to become a real boy. He always thought
it on his mind in his dream.

In the next morning, he was surprised that Pinocchio was alive. He

taught Pinocchio how to walk, how to read, how to speak and to do
other things as human. He then studied at an elementary school. One
day, Pinocchio felt bored and it made him go home late. When
Pinocchio finally came home, Geppetto asked him. He said that he was
on school but he wasn’t. Instantly, Pinocchio’s nose grew longer and
longer and it meant that Pinocchio has lied.

The next morning, Pinocchio was kidnaped by the owner of circus.

Pinocchio soon became a slave for the circus. He was so famous
because he was a puppet which can talk. Geppetto worried about him
because Pinocchio had not been going home for almost two days. He
tried to find Pinocchio everywhere but he found nothing. When he
searched him on the sea, big wave smashed him. He was then in
whale’s stomach when he awoke. He couldn’t find the way to go out.

In the other side, Pinocchio finally could escape out from the circus.
He came home but nobody was there. Latter on, he searched
Geppetto in the sea. He got the same accident like Geppetto and he
met Geppetto in whale’s stomach. Both of them got out from its
stomach by making a fire. In the end of the story, they went home
together and lived happily ever after.
 The Lion and The Mouse
When he was awakened by a tiny Mouse running across his body, a
mighty Lion was sleeping in his lair. The lion then grabbed the
frightened mouse with his huge paws and opened his mouth to
swallow him directly. “Please, King,” begged the Mouse, “Spare me this
time and of course I will never forget your kindness. Someday I may
be able to repay you. “The Lion thought that it was such an amusing
idea that he let the poor creature go.

Sometimes later the Lion was caught in a net laid by some hunters.
Despite his great strength, the Lion could not break free. Soon the
forest echoed with angry load roars.

The Little Mouse heard the Lion and ran to see what was wrong. As
soon as he succeeded to make the Lion free “There!” said the Mouse
proudly, ” You laughed at me when I promised to repay your kindness,
but now you know that even a tiny Mouse can help a mighty Lion.”

Moral Value:
1. Little friends may prove to be great friends.
2. Friend in need is friend indeed.