Name : Kelly kautsar kamil
Grade : 11 F1-C
English Features
Narrative text
Description:
A narrative text is a type of text that tells a story. Its primary purpose is to entertain, inform,
or instruct the reader by presenting a sequence of events, usually involving characters, a
setting, a plot, and a theme.
Typed of narrative text
I. Fictional Narratives (Imagined Stories)
Fairy Tales: Magical stories for children, often with a moral. (e.g., Cinderella)
Fables: Short stories, often with talking animals, teaching a moral. (e.g., The Tortoise
and the Hare)
Myths: Ancient, sacred stories explaining origins or featuring gods/heroes. (e.g.,
Greek myths)
Legends: Stories based on historical figures or events, but embellished. (e.g., King
Arthur)
Folktales/Folklore: Traditional stories passed down orally within a culture. (e.g.,
Malin Kundang)
Fantasy: Stories set in imaginary worlds, often with magic. (e.g., The Lord of the
Rings
II. Non-Fictional Narratives (True Stories)
These recount real events:
Biography: A person's life story written by someone else.
Autobiography: A person's life story written by themselves.
Memoir: Focuses on a specific period or theme from the author's life.
Historical Narrative: Recounts historical events, emphasizing causation.
Function:
The function of narrative text is to entertain and amuse the reader by telling a story. It can
also aim to inform or teach a lesson through the narrative. Narrative texts typically follow a
chronological order of events, often with a clear beginning, rising action, climax, falling
action, and resolution.
Structure:
The function of narrative text is to entertain and amuse the reader by telling a story. It can
also aim to inform or teach a lesson through the narrative. Narrative texts typically follow a
chronological order of events, often with a clear beginning, rising action, climax, falling
action, and resolution.
Language feature:
1. Past Tense
Narrative text primarily uses past tense verbs (simple past, past continuous, past perfect) to
narrate events that have already occurred.
2. Time Conjunctions
Words like "when," "then," "suddenly," and "after" connect events and show their order in
time.
3. Specific Nouns
Narrative texts often focus on specific characters and settings, using proper nouns to identify
them.
4. Action Verbs
Verbs that describe actions (e.g., "walked," "wrote," "bought") help to move the plot forward
and show what characters are doing.
5. Descriptive Language
Adjectives and adverbs are used to describe characters, settings, and events, adding detail and
depth to the narrative.
6. Direct Speech
Direct quotes from characters, often using present tense, can make the narrative more
engaging and bring the characters' voices to life.
7. Time Adverbials
Phrases like "once upon a time" or "one day" indicate when the events take place.
8. Pronouns
Words like he, she, they, it help refer to characters without repeating names constantly.
9. Figurative Language
Similes, metaphors, and personification create deeper meaning and imagery.
Example: The wind whispered through the trees.
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10. Dialogue Tags
Words like said, asked, replied, whispered help identify who is speaking and how.
Controlling Anger
Once, there was a young boy. This boy had problems controlling his anger. When he got
angry, he would say the first thing that came to mind, even if it affected people.
One day, his father gifted him a hammer and a bundle of nails, then said, "Whenever you get
mad, hammer a nail into the backyard fence."
In the first days, the boy used up half of the nails. Over the next weeks, he used up fewer
nails, until his temper was under control. Then, his father asked the young boy to remove a
nail for each day he didn't lose his temper.
On the day when the boy removed his last nail, his father told him, "You have done good,
boy. But, can you see the holes in the wall? The fence is never going to be the same.
Likewise, when you say mean things in anger, you'll leave a scar."
The Moral
Anger is like a knife one of the most dangerous weapons. When you use it, the wounds will
heal, but the scars remain.
