Narrative Text

Narrative text is a text that purpose to amuse or to entertain the reader or the listener and deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways to the reader or listener.other function of narrative text is for education

Generic Structure

•       Orientation    : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters, setting and time of the story are established.

•       Complication : When the problems in the story arise an involves main character.

•       Resolution      : The problems are solved  (better or worse).

Language Features

•       Use past form tenses.

•       Use indirect speech.

•       Use noun phrase.

•       Use time connectives and conjunctions.

•       Use adverbs and adverbial phrase.

•       Use imagery.

•       Use action verbs.

•       Use saying verbs

•       Use thinking verbs, feeling verb, and verbs of senses

Kinds of Narrative Text

•       Myth is a story made up to explain something that people believe (such as how the earth was made) or something in nature (such as thunder or lightning) with no proof.

•       Legend is story about the extraordinary deeds that real people or story characters (who might have been real people) are supposed to have performed.

•       Fable is a fictional tale involving animal characters.

•       Fairy Tales are stories that tell of miraculous and fantastic happenings. The main character in fairy tales are often supernatural and can do all sorts of extraordinary things.

•       Folklore is a tale that is inherited from a generation to next generation.

  

Example:

   

Cinderella

          Cinderella is a young woman living with her step mother and two step sisters. She works as a servant for them and caters to their every need. She does all the cooking and cleaning, and is treated like a servant. The step sisters are very mean.
           When the Prince of the Village sends out invitations to a ball held in his honour to all the villagers, Cinderella begs to go but her step mother will not let her.
           The night of the ball arrives, and the sisters and mother laugh and leave. Cinderella cries and wishes she could attend also. At that moment her Fairy God Mother appears and uses her magic so that Cinderella can attend, giving her a dress, glass slippers, and turning a pumpkin into a carriage. She also informs Cinderella that this spell will only last until midnight.
           Cinderella goes off onto the ball, and while she is there she attracts quite a bit of attention especially from the Prince. The two dance all night, till Cinderella hears the clock chime. She remembers what her god mother said, and dashes off, leaving only a slipper behind. The Prince desperate to find this mystery woman has his assistant go to all the women of the village to find its owner.
           Just when all hope is gone the assistant tries the slipper on the step sisters and despite a hard effort the shoe does not fit. Cinderella then tries on the shoe and it fits perfectly shocking everyone, especially her step sisters and evil step mother.
           Cinderella marries her Prince Charming and lives happily ever after.