A.

Definition of Narrative Text

Narrative text is one type of text that tells about a series of events chronologically and
connected to each other. The nature of narrative text is imaginative or in the form of a fictional
story (composition) which has the aim of entertaining the reader.

B. Kind of Narrative Text

 Fable
is a story about animals. For example, The Ugly Duckling, The Country of the Mice,
A Bear and A Rabbit, The Cat and The Rat, The Greedy Monkey, A Fox and A Little
Bird, The Mouse Deer and Crocodile and so on

 Myth
is a myth / myth that developed in society and is generally considered a factual story
or actually happened. For example, Aji Saka and Dewata Cengkar.

 Legends
is a story that tells about the origin of a place. The Legend of Surabaya, The Legend
of Prambanan Temple, Story of Lake Toba.

 Folktale
is a story passed down from generation to generation to become part of the
community tradition. For example Malin Kundang, Golden eggs.

 Fairy Tale
are folk tales or children's stories that have magic in the stories told by their authors.
For example Timun Mas, Tinker Bell, Tumbelina.

 Love Story
 is a story that tells (generally) the love struggle of the main character or about the
love story of the characters. For example, Romeo and Juliet, I'm One of Those Fool
Man.
 Personal Experience
is a narrative text that contains the author's personal experience.

 Slice of Life
is a story that contains activities or stories that occur in the daily life of the author or
imaginative character. For example True friends.

 Horror Stories
is a type of narrative text that tells scary stories in general, such as ghosts or other
astral beings.

 Sci-Fi
is a story that tells about things related to science.

C. Narrative Text Characteristics

After knowing the meaning and types of narrative text, you need to know the
characteristics of narrative text, along with its characteristics.

 Narrative text tells about a story that happened in the past.

 Using nouns or nouns to replace the words animals, people, things in the story. For
example the dwarfs, carriage and so on.
 Usually, they are stories that are already known by many people and developed in the
community. Examples such as The Rabbit and The Turtle, Malin Kundang and so on.
 The elements of narrative text consist of setting time, place, story theme, characters,
atmosphere, conflict and resolution.
 Arranged in a simple sequel or several complex sequels.
D. Linguistic Elements of Narrative Text

 Using Action Verb in Past Tense. For example: Climbed, Turned, Brought, etc.
 Using certain nouns as pronouns for certain people, animals and things in the story.
For example: the king, the queen, etc.
 Using adjectives that form noun phrases. For example: long black hair, two red
apples, etc.
 Uses Time Connectives and Conjunctions to sequence events. For example: then,
before, after, soon, etc.
 Using Adverbs and Adverbial Phrase to indicate the location of events or events. For
example: here, in the mountain, happily ever after, etc.

E. General Structure of Narrative Text

Each type of English text (genre) has its own text structure. The structure of the Narrative
Text consists of three parts, namely:

• Orientation
In the Orientation section, it contains the introduction of the characters in the story and
the time and place of the incident.

• Complications
The Complication section contains a description of the emergence of a crisis or problem
experienced by the character in the story that must be solved. Complications are divided
into 3, namely:
• Natural conflict, natural conflict or between universes.
• Social conflict, conflict between characters or actors.
• Psychological conflict, inner conflict or self
 • Resolution
The Resolution section contains how the characters from the story solve the problems in
the Complication section. Usually, there is more than one Resolution for one
Complication.

In some references to Narrative Text, there is an additional generic structure in Narrative

Text, namely the addition of Coda after Resolution. So the order of Narrative text is Orientation,
Complication, Resolution, and Coda. Coda is the last part of the Narrative Text structure which
contains changes that occur in the characters and lessons that can be learned from the story.
 SNOW WHITE

(Orientation)

Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her Aunt and
Uncle because her parents were dead.

(Complication)

One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle
because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow
White.

Snow White did not want her Uncle and Aunt to do this so she decided it would be best if
she ran away. The next morning she ran away from home when her Aunt and Uncle were having
breakfast. She ran away into the woods.

(Resolution)

Then she saw this little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and
fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There
they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs
said, “hat is your name?” Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.”

Doc, one of the dwarfs, said, “If you wish, you may live here with us.” Snow White said,
“Oh could I? Thank you.” Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and finally Snow
White and the 7 dwarfs lived happily ever after.
TEXT 1

SURABAYA

At one time there lived two strong animals. They were Sura the shark and Baya the
crocodile. The two lived together in a river in a dense forest. These two animals had an equation
that was to eat greedily.

Due to their gluttony, various foods such as small fishes, crabs and shrimps continued to
decrease. Finally, Sura and Baya lacked food.

Once upon a time, Baya went down to the river in search of food close to Sura. Sura got
angry, and finally there was a fierce fight. Since they were equally strong then no one won.

Finally, they both decided to divide the river into two, upstream for Baya while
downstream for Sura. Some time later there was a prolonged dry season.

The water downstream was getting less and less which made Sura difficult to get food.
Finally, Sura went downstream to look for the food. This was known to Baya and in the end
there was a violent fight between the two. This caught the attention of many people and watched
the fight.

Baya and Sura are both strong and this causes both animals to die. An old man then said
“from today I call this place Surabaya, in memory of this unusual event”. People who witnessed
this accepted the old man’s statement. From then on it was known as the Surabaya area.
TEXT 2

MYSTERY STORY

One time I went camping with my classmates in the mountains. The mountains are
located on the outskirts of villages far from residential areas. However, this place is often used as
a camping point so it is believed to be very safe especially from wild animals.

Finally we left on a sunday using 2 cars. The car was left in a nearby village. Then, we
proceeded on foot to the desired mountains. It took us approximately 8 hours to reach the camp
point.

During the climb, we stopped at three break points. Nothing out of the way during the
hike. However, at the second break point one of my friends felt unwell but was still able to climb
as usual. 

Just before we reached camp, my friend felt that his body was weakening. We soon
reached camp just before sundown. We immediately put up a tent to rest. At that time there were
six tents that had been installed before.

My friend immediately rested while me and two others went outside looking for clean
water. Earlier, I had asked the owner of another camp where the nearest spring was located. They
said about 1.5 km from the current location. They then told us to be careful because it was  
getting dark.

Then we rushed to find the spring. When we took the water, the atmosphere was dark and
the mountainous area was quiet. Slowly we felt cold all over the body. We went right back to the
tent. Before we got to the tent we saw a group of firefly-like animals on top of our tent.

The phenomenon was beautiful enough that me and two friends immediately took photos
for a memento.  We immediately cooked water for dinner. Oddly enough, my friend who wasn’t
feeling well had a high fever all night. He was shivering and sweating a lot. So, we took turns
guarding him that night.
 The next day, my friend’s condition began to recover a little. So we came down and went
back to the village. When I arrived at the village, my friend looked fresh, healthy like nothing
had happened. This certainly made us confused.

Shortly before returning to the city, the villagers asked “Have you seen a bunch of
fireflies?”. I said yes. “Go back to the city and do not come back to the mountains,” shouted the
villagers. I was confused, but still decided to leave the village immediately.

While on the road I checked my cell phone out of curiosity about what the villagers were
saying. When I saw the photo of the firefly, I was surprised because what I saw was a strange
creature that was very bright. I told this to another friend and they were all shocked. After seeing
this we promised not to return to that mountain.