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Narrative Text
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A. A. Understanding Narrative Text
Narrativetext is a kind of genre that the series of events or stories from time to timeand described in the order beginning, middle and end. So it should bechronological, meaning it is told in a coherent chronological and should not bejumping up and text that tells something imaginative or something that justmirages and aim only to entertain the reader.
B. B. PurposeNarrative Text
Thebasic purpose of the narrative text is to entertain and attract readers with astory or event that has the problems that lead to conflict and in the end noresolution or a happy ending or even depressing. Actually narrative text is notonly limited to the mystical story, fiction, legend, fairy tale or fable, butanother story in the form of adventure, mystery and all forms of story. Inessence, narrative text is about the story. But the lesson in school, genrenarrative text is usually only used to show the fictional story like a fairytale or legend. If the views of its kind, the narrative text that is oftenmeant by the father's mother was a teacher Suggestive Narrative category, ietext that purpose so that the reader gets the wisdom of a story.
C. C. Types of Narrative Text
NarrativeText has a core story that usually only in the form of the author's imaginationor a real incident that was captured by the author or even a combination ofboth. In various sources Narrative Text can be found in the form:
a. Fables(Stories about animals behave like humans pictured)
Fable is a story that tells thelife of an animal that behaves like a human. The story may not be the realstory. Fable is a fiction, a fantasy point (fantasy). Sometimes fable entercharacters minority human form.
The characteristics of fable:
1.The use of animal figures
2.animals as main characters can behave like humans
3.shows the depiction of moral / moral element and the human character andcriticism about life in the story.
4.The story short
5.Using a simple word choice
6.In the fable story, which is told is the most excellent among the humancharacters are weak and the strong.
7.Using a natural setting
b. Fairy stories (The story isfantastic, full of wonders)
Fairystories / fairy tale is a type of short stories that usually features folkloricfantasy characters Europe, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes,goblins, mermaids, trolls, witches, and usually magic or charm. Fables can bedistinguished from other people's stories as legends (which generally involvebelief in the truth of the events described) and explicitly moral of the story,including the fable.
c. Mysteries
Mysterygenre fiction is usually focused on the investigation of crime. Mystery fictionis often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction-in other wordsa novel or short story in which the investigator (whether professional oramateur) investigate and solve the mystery of evil. Sometimes nonfictionalmystery books. can whodunit that the emphasis on puzzles or elements of tensionand logical solutions like a mystery story. Mystery fiction can be comparedwith boiled detective stories, which focuses on action and gritty realism.mystery may involve supernatural mystery or thriller in which the solution isnot to be logical, and even no crime involved.
d. Science Fiction
Sciencefiction is a genre of fiction dealing with such imaginative content futuristicsettings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, fasterthan light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life. It oftenexplores the consequences of scientific innovations and other potential, andhas been called "literature of ideas.
e. Romances
Romanceis expressive and pleasant feeling of emotional appeal to the people associatedwith love. In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usuallyimplies a strong expression of romantic love a person, or a person's emotionaldesire and stronger to connect with others intimate or romantic. Historically,the term "romance" comes with the ideals of medieval knights asstated in his knight romance literature.
f. Horror Stories
Horrorfiction, horror and fantasy literature horror is a genre of literature, whichis intended to, or has the capacity to scare, frighten, or surprise the readerby inducing feelings of horror and terror. Literary historian JA Cuddon hasdefined the horror story as "a piece of prose fiction in the form ofvariable length ... which shocks or even fear the reader, or may inducefeelings of disgust or hatred." It creates a frightening and intimidatingatmosphere. Horror usually supernatural, though it can be a non-supernatural.Often the main threat of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as ametaphor for a greater fear of society.
g. Legends
Alegend is a narrative of human actions are perceived both by teller andlisteners to take place in human history and has certain qualities that giveverisimilitude story. Legend, for active and passive participants that includesno events that are outside the "possibility", as defined by a set ofhighly flexible parameters, which may include the miracles that are consideredtruly special has happened in the tradition of indoctrination where the legendappears , and where the tradition may change from time to time, to keep itfresh and vital, and realistic. Many legends operates in the areas ofuncertainty, never be fully believed by the participants, but also becamefirmly doubted.
h. Historical Narratives
Narrativehistory is the practice of writing history in the form of a story based. It canbe divided into two subgenres: the traditional narrative and narrativemodern.Narasi traditionally focused on the chronological order of history, itis event driven and tend to center on individuals, actions, and intentions.
Forexample, in the case of the French Revolution, a historian who works withtraditional narrative might be more interested in the revolution as a whole(one revolution), the center of Paris, and is highly dependent on the greatfigures such as Maximilien Robespierre.Sebaliknya, modern narrative usuallyfocus the structure and the general trend. A modern narrative will break fromrigid chronology if historians explain the concept better. In the case of theFrench Revolution, a historian working with modern narrative may indicategeneral characteristics possessed by the revolutionaries in France but alsowill describe regional variations from the general trend (many revolutionsconfluent). Also the kind of historian may use different sociological factorsto demonstrate why various types of people support the general revolution.
i. Personal Experience (personalexperiences written)
Theexperience of the human person is the experience moment-to-moment sensoryawareness and internal and external events or experiences some form ofempirical unity as the period of life.
j. Ballads (ballads, which can be atouching story readers, usually in the form of a love story that is not up)
Aballad / bæləd / is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Balladsderived from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which originally"dance songs". Ballads in particular the characteristics of popularpoetry and song from the British Isles later medieval period until the 19thcentury and is widely used throughout Europe and then America, Australia, andNorth Africa.
D. D. Generic structure
Genericstructure on Narrative Text is divided into four, namely:
1. Orientation
Namely the introductionof the form: a story about what (what is the story about), who the actors inthe story (who is the participant), of the story (where is the place setting)and the story when it happened (when is the time settings ).
2. Complication
In thisparagraph which became the core of the narrative text. Without any problems,this text is only one form of exposure to events that followed with anotherevent. Problems that arise can be distinguished:
- Natural Conflict
Namelythe problems that arise because of the perpetrator stories dealing with theforces of nature.
- Social Conflict
Namely the problems that arise because theperpetrators were facing each other. They met at the same time with differentinterests.
- Psychological Conflict
Namelythe problems that arise when dealing with the perpetrators of the story itself.The contradiction between the good and bad, between greed and tolerance.
3. Resolution
That problem can be solved. In Narrativetext, any problems that appear to be no solution, can be closed with a happyending (happy ending) or not slightly ended tragically, the sad (sad ending).
4. Coda
Is a sentence or a text messagecontained in narrative.
E. E. Language Features
1. Use Past Tense (S+V2)
The past tenseis a grammatical tense whose main function is to put an action or situation inthe past. In the language which has the past tense, thus providing a means ofgrammatical indicates that the event in question occurred in the past.
2. Use time connector
Time connector is usedin the description of time in the narrative text, the information is usually asa liaison paragraph 1 with other paragraphs. For example: Paragraph 1 (in themorning), Paragraph 2 (in daylight).
3. Using conjunction
Conjunction is used in conjunctionNarrative text. Example: After, before, That, So, After that, etc.
4. Using saying verb
Saying verb meaning in the narrativetext using the verb. Example: Told, Spoke, Promised, etc.
5. Using adjective
Adjective meaning in the narrative textusing adjectives. Example: Good, Bad, Beautiful, ugly, etc.
F. Grammar Used
Grammar(grammar) that often arise in making the narrative text is tenses"past", both simple, past perfect, past continuous, past perfectcontinuous, future or past continuous.
- 1. Simplepast tense
Simple past tense is a simple form ofthe verb to indicate that an event occurred in the past. In the simple pasttense, time of occurrence (yesterday, last two days, last year) or time period(for two months, for a day, for an hour) can be specifically mentioned. Simplepast tense can also be used to form a conditional sentence type 2.
2. Pastperfect tense
2. Pastperfect tense
Past perfecttense is a verb form used to express that an action has been completed at somepoint in the past before another action occurs. The action has been completedin the past it may happen repeatedly or only once. In addition, past perfecttense can also be used to form a conditional sentence type 3 and reportedspeech.
3. Pastcontinuous tense
3. Pastcontinuous tense
Past continuoustense or past progressive tense is a verb form used to express that an actionis happening at a particular time in the past. The action has been started butnot yet completed at the time.
4. Pastperfect continuous
4. Pastperfect continuous
Past perfect continuoustense is a verb form used to express an action (with certain time duration) hasbeen completed at a given point in time in the past.
5. Pastfuture continuous
5. Pastfuture continuous
Future continuous tenseor future tense progressive form of the verb is used to express the action thatwill be taking place at a certain time in the future. The action has beenstarted but not yet completed at the time.
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