Narrative Text

       Teks narrative merupakan jenis teks berupa cerita atau dongeng yang bertujuan menghibur pembaca. Ciri utama teks narrative adalah terdapatnya masalah (hal yang dianggap masalah atau pelik) dan langkah yang di ambil untuk merespon masalah tersebut >> ini umumnya berupa solusi atau penyelesaian. Konten teks narrative dapat berupa cerita khayalan atau kisah nyata yang mendapatkan bumbu – bumbu perekayasa.

       Teks Narrative umumnya memiliki struktur (generic Structure):

- Orientation, pendahuluan atau pembuka berupa pengenalan tokoh, waktu dan tempat

- Complication / Crisis, pengembangan konflik atau pemunculan masalah

- Resolution, penyelesaian konflik atau langkah yang diambil untuk merespon masalah

- Reorientation, penutup – ungkapan – ungkapan yang menunjukan cerita sudah berakhir, ini sifatnya opsional (tambahan)

- Coda, perubahan yang terjadi pada tokoh dan pelajaran yang dapat di petik dari cerita, sifatnya juga opsional 

       Teks Narrative sering menggunakan unsur kebahasaan tertentu (Language Focus), antara lain:

- noun tertentu sebagai kata ganti orang, hewan, dan benda dalam cerita, misalnya stepmother, household, dsb

- individual participant, terfokus pada kisahan partisipan (pelaku) tertentu spesifik

- past tense, menggunakan kata kerja bentuk lampau, misalnya went, ran, ate, dsb

- time connective dan conjunction, untuk mengurutkan kejadian, misalnya after, before, soon, then, after that, dsb

- action verb, kata kerja yang menunjukan peristiwa atau kegiatan, misalnya stayed, climbed, killed, dll 

- saying verb and thinking verbs, kata kerja yang menunjukan pelaporan atau ujaran, misalnya said, told, promised, thought, understood, dsb

Examples of Narrative Text

Snow White

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

       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 into the woods. She was very tired and hungry. 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. They dwarfs said, what is your name? Snow White said, “My name is Snow White”

       Doc 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 after that Snow White and seven Dwarfs lived happily ever after 

The Frog Prince

       Long ago there was a king who had a beautiful daughter. He loved her very much. Everyday the princess would sit by the palace well and toss a golden ball high in the air and let it drop. She loved to play this game.

       One day she accidentally tosses her ball too high. When it came down she could not catch it. It fell deep into the well. The princess began to cry. “Why are you crying?” said a voice behind her. The pricess looks down. She saw a frog. “ Oh, please, Frog”. said the princess, “I lost my ball down the well. If you bring it back to me, I will do anythink you want”.“Anything at all?” asked the frog. “Yes, anything”, said the princess

       So the frog dived into the well and gave the ball back to the princess. “I don’t want many and property”, said a frog. “Let me live with you and be favourite friend.” The princess did not really want to let the frog came and live with her as favourite friend but she was an honest princess. When she made a promise she kept it. So the frog came back with her to palace

      One day the princess discovered that the frog had turned into handsome prince, so they got married and live happily ever after