Narrative is the genre which contains

imaginative story or folktale such as

fable, myth ,legend, etc
The purpose/the goal/the aim of the
text is to amuse/to intertain the
readers or the audiences related to the
imaginative experiences/fictious story
due to complication of crisis ,and at last
there is a solution

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- Orientation: sees the scenes and introduces the
participants
- Complication: a crisis arises
- Resolution: the resolution is resolved for better
or
worse condition
re-orientation (optional)
- Coda (optional): the changes that happened to

the participants and the moral value that we can

learn from the story.

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- Focus on specific and individualized
participants
- Use of rational processes and mental processes
- Use of temporal conjunctions and temporal
circumstances use of past tense

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- an orientation (can be a paragraph, opening chapter
or a picture) in which the narrator tells the audiences
about who in the story, when the story is taking place
,and where the action is happening.
- a complication that sets off a chain of events that
influence what will happen in the story.
- a sequence of events where the characters react in
the complication.

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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 Awent back to the
sea. Baya was happy.

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• 1.What is the title of a narrative text above?
• 2. How many characters are there in the story?
• 3. What is seen by Baya?
• 4. Why are they fighting?
• 5. Who violates the agreement between Sura
and Baya?
• 6. What lessons can we learn in the story?

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ANY QUESTIONS??

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