have you ever heard stories about Cinderella or Snow White?
Those stories are kinds of narrative text.. did you know about NARRATIVE TEXT?
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Narrative text
Definition:
Narrative text is a type of spoken or written text that
tells a story of one character or more who face certain problematic
situations.
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Purpose
or social function of the text:
The main purpose of narrative is to amuse, entertain and
engage the reader in an imaginative experience. A narrative story deals with
complications or problematic events which lead to a crisis and in turn finds
a resolution.
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Types
Types of narrative text are:
1.
Fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features
animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature
which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities), and that illustrates a
moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be expressed
explicitly in a pithy maxim.
2.
Legend (Latin, legenda, "things to be read") is a narrative of
human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place
within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale
verisimilitude. Legend, for its active and passive participants includes no
happenings that are outside the realm of "possibility", defined by
a highly flexible set of parameters, which may include miracles that are
perceived as actually having happened, within the specific tradition of
indoctrination where the legend arises, and within which it may be
transformed over time, in order to keep it fresh and vital, and realistic.
3.
Folktales are a general term for different varieties of traditional
narrative. The telling of stories appears to be a cultural universal,
4.
Fairy Tale is a type of short narrative that typically features such
folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves,
giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small
number of the stories refer to fairies. The stories may nonetheless be
distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally
involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicitly moral
tales, including beast fables.
5.
Modern fantasy is literature written by a known author that is set either in
make-believe or imaginary world with which places, people and creatures could
not exist in and/or have events that could not possibly happen such as tiny
people, talking animals, or traveling through time.
Generic Structure of the text:
1.
Orientation
Sets the scene: where and when the story
happened, introduces the participants of the
story: who and what is involved in the story.
2.
Complication
Tells the beginning of the problem which leads to the
crisis (climax) of the main participants.
3.
Resolution
The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy
ending or in sad (tragic) ending.
4.
Reorientation
This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional.
It consists of a moral lesson, advice or teaching from the writer.
Language
features:
1. A narrative focuses on specific participants: often
individual or participants with defines identities. Major participants are
human, or sometimes animals with human characteristic.
2. Mainly use action, verbal or mental processes (verbs of
perception: think, realize, feel, etc.)
3. It usually use past tenses (Simple Past Tense and
Past Continuous Tense).
4. Direct and indirect speeches are often used (some
dialogs are used in the story and the tense can change).
5. Descriptive language is used to create listeners’ or
readers’ imagination.
6. Can be written in first person (I, We) or third person
(he, she, and they) ( In choose – your-own-advantages, the reader is involved
in the story a major character and addressed as” you”.
7. Temporal conjunctions are also used.
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Here
is one example of a narrative text.
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