NARRATIVE TEXT

NARRATIVE TEXT

DEFINITION

        Narrative text is the text which tells of the past who has the time and place of occurrence, moral message, problem, climax and resoliution. 

SOCIAL FUNCTION

        To amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or various experience in different ways

GENERIC STRUCTURE

¨ Orientation

¨  Problem evaluation

¨ Complication

¨ Resolution

¨ Re-orientation         

LANGUAGE FEATURES

v Focus on specific participants

v Use of past tense

v Use of temporal conjuction and temporal curcumstances

EXAMPLE OF NARRATIVE TEXT :

The  Origin of the city  Surabaya

Once upon a time , there were two animals , Sura and Baya. Sura is the name of the shark and Baya the crocodile . They live in the deep sea . After  Sura and Baya were looking for some food . Suddenly, Baya see a nice goat . " Yummy is good, this is the most delicious lunch, "said Baya . ' No way ! This is my lunch . You greedy " Sura said . After that, they fought for goats. After several hours of fighting, they were very tired. Feels tired of fighting , they live in different places . Sura Baya live in the water and stay in the country.

        Border is the beach , so they do not will fight again . Someday,  Sura went to the ground and look 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 a promise. they fight again. They both punching and kicking. tail Sura Baya fight . Baya did the same thing to Sura . He bit very hard until Sura finally gave up and returned to the sea . Baya happy. named his final city of Surabaya .