..Narrative Text, is a text whose contents is a story or a story about
something.
Examples :
• animal story (fable)
• legend (legend)
• short stories (short story)
• and the like.
The characteristics of narrative text:
1.Generic Structure:
a.Orientation
b.Complication
c.Resolution
d.reorientation
2.Narrative Grammatical
features using “past tense"
3.Frequent use of
conjunctive time (temporal conjunction), for example: once upon a time, one
day, long time ago,etc.
4.Social function : to entartain the reader/listener
Generic Structure
•Orientation: provides an
introduction to the characters, place and time of the story (who or what, when
and where)
•Complication: Contains the height of
the conflict / problem in the story. Complication A story may have more than
one.
•Resolution: Problem solving. Could
end up with joy (happy ending) could also end up with sadness (sad ending).
•Reorientation containing contents
inference while the ending .
Example:
Why do hawk always
hunt the chiks?
Once upon a time, a hawk
fell in love with a hen. the hawk flew down from the sky and asked the hen, " Will you
marry me?". ( Orientation )
The hen loved the brave,
strong hawk and wished to marry him. But she said, " I cannot fly as high you can., if you give me
time, may I learn to fly as high as you ?. then we can fly together.“ ( Compilication )
The hawk agreed. Before he went away, he gave the hen ring. "this is to
show that you have promised to marry me," said the hawk. ( Resolution )
It so happened that the hen already promised to marry the
rooster. So, when the rooster saw the ring, he became very angry. "throw
that ring away at once?" shouted the rooster. the hen was so fightened at the rooster's
anger that she threw away the ring immediately. (Compilication )
When the hawk came a few months later, the hen told him the
truth. The hawk was so furious that he cursed the hen. “why didn't you tell me
earlier? Now you'll always be scratching the earth and I'll
always be flying above to catch your children,"said the hawk. ( Resolution )
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