PRIMBON : NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is story, mostly, narrative are imaginary stories but sometimes narratives can be factual too. Narrative text is to tell something in the past. Narrative includes fairy stories, fables, mystery, science, fictions any romance and horror.


Narrative have three elements, there are:
• Orientation is sets the scene and the participant
• Complication is crisis arias
• Resolution is include the crisis resolved for the better or worse.
Likes Recount text, Narrative text using verb II, too.

Characteristic of Narrative Text :
♥ Entertain the reader
♥ Structure of the text :
   > Orientation
   > Complication
   > Resolution
♥ Other generic structure :
   > Evaluation and coda
♥ Language features :
   > Nouns, adjective, time conjuction and conjuctions, adverb and adverbial phrases, action
   verbs, saying verbs.


Kind of Narrative Text :
♥ Myth
♥ Legend
♥ Fable
♥ Folklore


Example Narrative Text :


“Golden Eggs”


Long time ago a remote village, in central China was inhabited mainly with farmers and hunters. One day, a poor farmer lost his entire livestock to flood. He prayed hard to God for help or his family would die of starvation. Few days later, an old man with long grey beard, passed by his house took pity on him. He gave him a goose and said “ I don’t have any expensive thing to give you and hope this goose will help you to ease your hardship.”
A week later to almost surprise the farmer found and egg in his yard. This was no ordinary egg. It was a golden egg. He was suddenly overcome with joy. Thereafter, his livelihood had rapidly improved but the farmer had forgotten his earlier hardship. He became lazy, arrogant and spendthrift. Strangely, the goose only laid one golden egg every six months. The greedy farmer lost his patient and slaughtered his goose thinking there were plenty of golden eggs inside its stomach. Though he very much regretted for his foolishness, it’s already too late.