Narrative

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By: Miss Fani
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Narrative text is a type of text that tells a

story or describes a sequence of events or an
imaginative story to entertain people
aim/purpose/function

The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or

to entertain the reader with a story.
 Kind of Text

Fable
to entertain or to amuse the readers about
the interesting story, to convey moral
messages or lessons to the readers,
especially for children to behave morally in
the world to understand the values of the
culture in which they are written.
Legend
to present the story of human actions
in such a way that they are perceived
by the listeners or readers to be true (in
literature), to entertain or to amuse the
readers about the interesting story (in
general).
 Kind of Text

Fairy Tale Folklore

a story, often intended for children, that features are stories in the oral tradition, or
fanciful and wondrous characters such as elves,
tales that people tell each other
goblins, wizards, and even, but not necessarily,
out loud, rather than stories in
fairies. The term “fairy” tale seems to refer more to
written form. They're closely
the fantastic and magical setting or magical
influences within a story, rather than the presence
related to many storytelling
of the character of a fairy within that story traditions, including fables, myths.
 Generic
Structure of
Narrative Text:

Orientation: It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are
introduced. (person, time, and place)

Complication: where the problems in the story developed.

Resolution: where the problems in the story is solved.  Sometimes (generic structure)
narrative text can be contained

 Reorientation contains the conclusion of the end story

Language
Features:
• Using action verb: Climbed,
Turned, Brought, etc.
• Using specific noun as pronoun
of person, animal in the story.
Example: The king, the queen,
etc.
• Using Past Tense
Using adverbs and adverbial phrase
to show the location of events.
Using adjectives which are
Examples: Here, in the mountain,
for noun phrase. Example:
ever after, etc.
Long black, hair, two red
apples, etc.
• Using dialogue to elicit an
emotional response from the
• Using time connectives and
reader.
Conjunctions to arrange the
events. Examples: Then,
• Using of variety of simple,
before, after, soon, etc.
compound and complex sentences
 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 died.

complication
One day she heard her Uncle and Aunt talking about leaving Snow
White in the castle because they both wanted to go America and
they didn’t have enough money to sake 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 1

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, “What 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. “
Reorientation

Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and finally Snow White
and the 7 dwarfs lived happily ever after
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